Inorganic composite materials in Japan: Status and trends
Japan's high-performance composite research activities and applications are reviewed by six authors, who teamed as a study group in September 1988, in order to assess selected research areas of composite activities. The summary of the study group visits are detailed in the subsequent sections: advanced-composite material programs; ceramic fibers and whiskers; metal-matrix composites; ceramic matrix composites; and composite applications and future directions. Several developments in high-temperature metals and polymer and metal-matrix composites have been achieved over an eight-year program. In the composites area, the areas of fiber and whisker developments, ceramic-powder processing, and applications of metal-matrix composites are particularly notable and are reviewed. Toyota's application of wear-resistant metal-matrix composites for automotive-diesel piston fabrication continues to be significant with other structural and wear applications currently being considered and sought. The efforts in ceramic-matrix composites are more on a laboratory and developmental stage and have not matured to a manufacturing production stage with the notable exception of the Nissan turbocharger.
- Research Organization:
- Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5524378
- Report Number(s):
- PB-89-230015/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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