Advanced Composites Status Review
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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I hope to give you very briefly this morning an overview of the composites technology. For some of you who are not too familiar with the technology, I am going to tell you what it consists of, what we are doing today in the technology, and where we think we are going tomorrow. I am going to end up with some comments on the role of NDI, which I think is going to be paramount in achieving our future goals.
Although most of my talk will relate to laminated composite materials, obviously it is very generic to bonded joints. The bond plies are really bonded together by adhesive material, the resin. The filaments are bonded to the matrix material. We have many bonded joints, so many of the problems that I relate to also are generic to bonded materials in general, or two-phase materials.