Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-17-1F: Composite Materials Handbook, Volume 1 - Polymer Matrix Composites Guidelines for Characterization of Structural Materials

Volume 1 of this 2002 revised military handbook provides guidelines and material properties for polymer (organic) matrix composites materials. This handbook encompasses, but is not limited to, polymeric composites intended for aircraft and aerospace vehicles and military combat vehicle applications. The information is obtained from materials producers, industry, reports on Government-sponsored research, the open literature, and by contact with research laboratories and those who participate in the coordination activity. Content:• Front Matter • Foreword • Table of Contents 1. Objectives 2. Guidelines for Property Testing of Composites 3. Evaluation of Reinforcement Fibers 4. Matrix Characterization 5. Prepreg Materials Characterization 6. Lamina, Laminate, and Special Form Characterization 7. Structural Element Characterization 8. Statistical Methods • Index • Concluding Remarks • Standardization Document Improvement Proposal This 2003 publication is the highly interactive Knovel version of the Department of Defense's Military Handbook MIL-HDBK-5H. It contains standardized design values and related design information for metallic materials and structural elements used in aerospace vehicle structures. It provides mechanical and physical property data, including fatigue-crack propagation rate; fracture toughness; fatigue, creep, and rupture strength for steel, aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and other alloys; and a whole chapter on joint allowables. In Knovel's version, each of the design and mechanical property data tables is interactive. In addition, Knovel has digitally calibrated hundreds of graphs, such as the effect of temperature on various physical properties and stress-strain curves. These graphs are featured in our interactive Graph Digitizers "Volume 4 of this 2002 revised military handbook documents engineering methodologies for the development of standardized, statistically-based material property data for continuous and discontinuous metal matrix composite (MMC) materials. Essential to efficient engineering development process, this data will be beneficial to material suppliers, engineering users, and system end-users alike. And, since the inherent properties of materials are independent of specific applications, data development methodologies and material property data are applicable to a wide variety of industries, and form much of the technical basis for establishment of statistically based design values acceptable to procuring or certifying agencies."--Knovel Content: v. 1F. Polymer matrix composites guidelines for characterization of structural materials -- v. 2F. Polymer matrix composites materials properties -- v. 3F. Polymer matrix composites materials usage, design, and analysis -- v. 4A. Metal matrix composites -- v. 5H. Metallic materials and elements for aerospace vehicle structures.