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APPLIED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 4-5, Pages 189-205Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025533701806
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Fibre Metal Laminates; Arall; Glare; residual strength; burn through; static properties; Delft University; Structural Laminates Company; Akzo; Alcoa; Fokker; 3M; ballistic material; barrel test
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In this paper a brief overview of the history of Fibre Metal Laminates Arall and Glare is given as background information for the other, technical articles in this journal. The story of the development of Fibre Metal Laminates is rather a unique story in the history of aircraft materials: A university laboratory invented, developed and certified an aircraft material. Many parties were involved naturally, yet the very heart of the activity was the Structures and Materials Laboratory of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. At the break of the world's largest passenger transport aircraft, the Airbus A380, in which a substantial part of the fuselage will be made of Glare, the glass fibre-aluminium version of Fibre Metal Laminates, it is a good moment to tell some of its history.
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