Glare history of the development of a new aircraft material /

• Main Author: Vlot, Ad (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Automotive engineering.; Materials science.; Automotive Engineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; History, general.

Glare is the name given to a new material for aircraft structures developed at Delft University in the Netherlands. It consists of thin aluminium layers bonded together by adhesive containing embedded fibres and is very resistant to fatigue. This book gives the inside story of how the development of...

Table of Contents:

• The birth of Arall (1945–1981)
• Arall takes to the air (1981–1988)
• Taward Glare, fuselages and the U.S. (1988–1997)
• Glare in Europe — a long, long runway (1988–1997)
• The end of the beginning — from A3XX to A380 (1996–2001).