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... A conclusion of this study is that there are more similarities than differences between the four primary forces driving materials research within the commercial automotive and aircraft industries: manufacturing rates, global competition, societal and regulatory constraints, and execution cycles. Advances in materials can be applied either to improve product performance, quality, and reliability or to permit creative product design to provide new, uncontested competitive space in the marketplace.
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... Some of these materials-selection, and hence development, decisions will be dependent on government regulations. For example, as stated in a recent Office of Transportation Materials report' "projections of weight reductions necessary to enable automakers to meet upcoming anticipated legislative standards currently range from 30 percent to 35 percent (a 1,000 lb.)
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... The committee believes these opportunities will be largely achieved in the future through the development of new, innovative processing and manufacturing approaches, using either existing materials or those currently being developed. AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY For the aircraft industry, while the same dominant materials drivers exist for lightweight, strong, environmentally benign materials, the considerations and the likely response will be quite different.
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... Candidate materials for hightemperature environments include the carbon fiber- reinforced thermoplastics and thermosets, such as the cyanate esters and toughened bismaleimides, for airframe materials and TiA1 and ceramic-matrix composites for engine materials. Anisotropic materials will also become increasingly important, as will surface and interface engineering to optimize desired engineered structures by creating uniformly graded materials.
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... For instance, the development of low-cost, reliable processes for manufacturing and recycling composites will be key to their increased use. It is clear that the more detailed analyses and conclusions are consonant with the broader vision of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology report quoted in Chapter 1 and further that the results described for materials for the transportation industries in this report have broader applicability to other industrial sectors dependent on advanced structural materials.
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