Emerging metallic materials, processing, and manufacturing technologies offer an important opportunity to meet current aircraft-airframe and jet-engine affordability goals, due to their inherent low material costs and excellent producibility characteristics. But to successfully meet systems goals within this new affordability-driven scenario, a consolidation of industry and military-agency development resources and technology-implementation activities is necessary to positively impact the military-aircraft production and sustainment infrastructure. To address this need, a consortium of aircraft and engine manufacturers and key material- and component-supplier companies has been formed to identify critical affordable metal technologies, develop a strategic roadmap for accelerated development and insertion of these technologies, and oversee execution of development activities by integrated industry teams. The goal of the Metals Affordability Initiative is to reduce the cost of metallic components by 50 % while accelerating the implementation time.
Reducing costs in aircraft: The metals affordability initiative consortium
Kostenreduzierung im Flugzeugbau: Das Konsortium für eine Initiative zur Erschwinglichkeit von Metallen
JOM - The Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society ; 52 , 3 ; 24-28
2000
5 Seiten, 8 Bilder, 11 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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