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| Iridium Alloy for Spark Plug Electrodes | 3 | |
| Fatigue Boundarie's Increase in a Mechanical Component | 9 | |
| Intermetallic TiAl(Cr,Mo,Si) Alloys for Lightweight Engine Parts - Structure and Properties | 12 | |
| Carbon - a Key Material in Future Motive Power Engineering | 19 | |
| Characteristics of Cast and Welded Aluminium Nodes | 24 | |
| Processing and Corrosion Control of a Magnesium Body Structure Element | 30 | |
| Near-net-shape Magnesium-Structural Components for Automotive Applications | 35 | |
| 3-Dimensional Shaped Aluminum Foam Sandwiches | 40 | |
| Eutectic Microstructural Evolution of a Thixoformed AZ91 after Solution Heat Treatment | 46 | |
| Influence of Roller Burnishing on Surface Properties of Mg-Alloys: Roughness, Hardness, Residual Stresses, Corrosion | 52 | |
| Near Net Shape Cast Sheet for Automotive Applications | 58 | |
| Development of a Highly Ductile Die Casting Alloy of the Type AlMg[subscript 3] | 64 | |
| Innovative Casting Process of Lighter Steel Components For The Transport Industry (Brite/Euram III "ICARO" project) | 71 | |
| Mathematical Modeling of Residual Stresses in World Simulated Specimen of Aluminum Alloy AA 6082 | 78 | |
| Pyrolysis-GC/MS in Damage Analysis of Polymers | 84 | |
| Ultralight and Wear Resistant Ceramic Brakes | 89 | |
| Porous Metal Fiber Components - POMFICO | 95 | |
| Extension of the Life Time of Thin Foils Made of Fe-Cr-Al Alloys | 103 | |
| TiAl Automotive Valves - Fabrication and Properties | 110 | |
| Experimental Evaluation of Residual Stresses in the Aluminum Alloy AA 6082 by Use of the Satoh Test | 116 | |
| Semi-Solid-Metal Casting 1 Thixocasting: Determination of the Flow Characteristics of Semi-Solid Aluminum Albys | 124 | |
| Short Fatigue Crack Problem in a Steel | 129 | |
| Processing of Natural Fibres with Hybrid-Technology | 135 | |
| Laser Welding of 6xxx series Aluminum Alloys | 143 | |
| Characterisation of Mechanical Properties and Corrosion Performance of Friction Stir Welded AA6013 Sheet | 150 | |
| Thermal Decomposition of Quasi-crystalline Phases and Mechanical Properties after Hot Extrusion of Rapidly Solidified Al-6.5Fe-1.5V | 156 | |
| 3D Textile Reinforcements for High-Performance Rotors | 163 | |
| Design and Manufacture of 3D-Braided Textiles as a Reinforcement for Composites | 169 | |
| Advanced Materials for RTM-Processing - Characterization and Application of Non Crimp Fabrics (NCF) | 176 | |
| Advances in Aerospace Materials and Structures | 183 | |
| Non-Destructive Imaging Techniques for Damage Evaluation of Smart Materials | 198 | |
| Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Screw Press Forged Ti-17 Alloy | 204 | |
| Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Thermomechanically Processed Ti-25V-15Cr-xAl alloys | 211 | |
| The Relationship between Thermomechanical Treatment and the Mechanical Properties of Ti-17 | 218 | |
| A New Tantalum Strengthened Alloy for Flying Gasturbines | 225 | |
| Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Power Beam Weld Superalloys during Cyclic Deformation | 231 | |
| Determination of the Microstructural Response of Titanium Alloys to Fabrication Processing for the Novel Design of Future Aeroengine Components | 237 | |
| Test Methods and Vibration Monitoring of Samples and Bladed of Aircraft Enginges with Cracks | 243 | |
| Physical Aging of Titanium/FM-5 Polyimide Adhesive Structural Laminates: Nanoindentation Measurement of the Interface Properties | 249 | |
| Platinum Base Alloys for High Temperature Space Applications | 257 | |
| Repair of (Gamma)TiAl Alloys by Diffusion-Brazing Technique | 261 | |
| SI-SIC LigaFill Foams and Related Net-like Structures - New Lightweight and Low-cost Materials for Spaceborne Applications | 270 | |
| Study of the Hot- and Warm Workability of the 2618 Aluminum Alloy | 277 | |
| Modeling of Cyclic Stress-Strain Behavior and Life Prediction of Near-รถ Titanium Alloys IMI 834 under Thermomechanical Fatigue Conditions | 283 | |
| High Temperature Al-0.3Li-1Mg Alloys Reinforced With Ultra Fine TiO[subscript 2] Additions | 291 | |
| Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Hydrogen Absorption in b-Titanium Alloys | 298 | |
| Deformation and Lifetime Behaviour of Cyclic Loaded Rail and Wheel Steels | 305 | |
| Thermal Fatigue of a Railway Wheel | 312 | |
| RIMLoC-Process for Particle Reinforced Al-Metal-Matrix-Composites for Wear Resistant Light-Weight-Components | 317 | |
| Microstructure and Properties of an Ordered and a Disordered Ship Propeller Bronze | 323 | |
| Elastic Bonding in Vehicle Construction | 329 | |
| Sandwich Design for Ships and Railway Wagons | 335 | |
| Low Cost Primary Composite Structures | 343 | |
| Employment of Rapid Heat Treatment of Rolled Steel Products for Shipbuilding Application | 352 | |
| Investigation of the Formation of White Etching Layers and Residual Stress in Railway Rails | 358 | |
| Author Index | 365 | |
| Subject Index | 369 |
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Zezo Aser
reviewed EUROMAT 99, Materials for Transportation Technology, Vol. 1 on December 21, 2014
EUROMAT 99, Materials for Transportation Technology, Vol. 1
I'd like to give it 5 stars, and yet I don't think it deserves it - at least under the consideration of my expectations.
Now, what is it that you get, if you read this book?
It is a collection of speeches, I guess (some read like speeches), or scientific articles which were collected for an AAAS-event in 2002. Scientists and scientific-minded spirits met and discussed the topic of "multi-generation starships". This kind of ships would be needed, if humankind decides to fly to one of the nearer stars, which are 4,3 or far more light-years away, but lacks to have FTL-drives (faster-then-light propulsion- and engine-systems). Therefore any such travel would take many years, decades, if not centuries rendering common spaceship-techologies and concepts useless.
So, in the series of articles in this book the reader learns about propulsion-issues and the more or less likely to be deployed technologies on the one side, and on the other side issues like genetic diversity, linguistics, culture etc. Especially the latter and softer sciences were arranged around the concept of having a ship's crew of about 150-200 people flying up to 200 years - thus 5-8 generations, therefore a multi-generation travel-experience - in order to reach the next star, observe it for a short period of time and return back to Earth.
What I really enjoyed about this book and the variety of articles is that you don't need to be a rocket-scientist or -engineer in order to understand the articles - not even the very sophisticated articles about speed, acceleration, different types of engines etc., because the different authors offer enough pictures, easy explanations and annotated mathematical formulae, which should help most readers to get along with the provided information. I am neither a scientist nor an engineer, and I actually understand most of the maths in the first articles on propulsion; and even the very interesting article about genetics and genetic diversity, which I consider to be one of the more challenging articles in this book, were not half as heavy as the average article on most scientific magazines written for a broader audience. Considering only this the book really deserves 5 stars - at least from me without hesitation, if not ...
I hoped to find some more extra-information ... like: If there is a multi-generation starship mission, what purpose would it serve? It would be about colonizing a nearby star-system. Hence what about the size of the crew, the equipment and the set-up of the ship? In my humble opinion the crew would or should be much bigger then just 200 people, right?
And speaking of the crew, this would also involve answering the question about what tasks would have to be performed for many decades on board the ship and later on during the first years of colonization?
And what about the hull and the concept of the ship? Would it be like the famous O'Neill-cylinder, or more kind of a sphere, or maybe something completely different? And what challenges would the architecture of such a device have to master?
And what about animals, food, different levels of social activities?
Questions like these are not answered in this book (by the way: the article on linguistics and culture has left the impression that it was abbreviated a lot; it stopped way too abrupt without a conclusion, and somehow it did not "fit" into the quality of the whole series of articles ...) , which is why I am 'only' willing to spread 4 stars on this title. But while writing this I still stick to it: This book is worth the reading. In fact it helped me a lot about understanding the concept and some of the complications of a multi-generation starship. And since many of the articles refer to other sources I may do some research in order to learn more details I longed to, but did not get from this book ...
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