PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Layup, Thermal Shock, Metal Matrix Composite
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Any combination of two or more different materials at the macroscopic level"; two. [or more] inherently different materials that exceed the constituent materials. ": assembled in phases," or components: continuous, or matrix (which is a host, of sorts), and dispersed, or reinforcement. (essentially, a non-exclusively metallic alloy. ) Costs of manufacture: materials costs are relatively high, due to purchasing at least an additional material, whereas design costs are relatively low, as the number of assembly components are reduced. Types: there are five basic types of composite materials: fibre, filler, flake, laminar and particle. Fibres reinforce along the line of their length," mainly 1d, which possesses high performance; and 2d and 3d, or isotropic (the alignment of which is random). Reinforce a composite equally in all directions (again, isotropic). Involve two or more layers of the same or different materials. ". Usually this arrangement is flat, although it may be curved, as in a shell. ".
