Metal Composites: Beyond Carbon Fiber

Credit: TISICS Ltd
Aviation's switch to composite aircraft construction will take-off with Boeing's 787 later this year, but the move into metal composites will take a little longer -- primarily because the processes for making them have tended to remain in laboratories and have yet to prove their worth in industrial...

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