Clarifies the relationship of materials to national security and industrial production. Examines the structure of the aerospace industry and its uses of advanced materials technologies, potential problems in materials supply, the materials' use by other industries, and discusses policy approaches. Projects aerospace industry requirements to increase 40 percent between 1980 and 1990 for titanium, cobalt, tantalum, and chromium. Projects the aerospace industry output to increase at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the 1980-85 period, 2.6 percent from 1985 to 1990, and no growth between 1990 and year 2000.


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    Title :

    Critical Materials Requirements of the U.S. Aerospace Industry


    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    319 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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