Almmc.com
Title
Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites Consortium (AlMMC)
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- History and Consortium Structure
- The Aluminum MMC Consortium grew out of a series of workshops held in 1995 and 1996 at which the need for a collaborative effort to expand the applications for aluminum Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) was recognized. The Consortium was formalized through the signing of a contractual joint venture agreement between the Founding Members in December 1997.
- The efforts of the Consortium are initially focused on Discontinuously Reinforced Aluminum (DRA) materials, which are a class of metal matrix composites in which an aluminum matrix is reinforced with ceramic particles, whiskers, or short fibers.
- DRA materials have the potential for redefining the limits of aluminum materials because of their unique combinations of properties -- the stiffness of titanium, better wear resistance than steel, and tailorable coefficient of thermal expansion, all while maintaining the light weight characteristics of aluminum.
