Automotive Applications

• Cost considerations are a big limiting factor
• FRPs in car bodies
• Al MMCs in brake callipers
• Steel-reinforced tires
• Future applications
• Ti MMCs in gears and valves and turbochargers
• Frictionless Al MMCs in pistons and engine block
• Ceramic matrix composites in cylinder liners

Aerospace Applications

• Commercial Aircraft
• Low risk/low cost composites
• McDonnell Douglas (in-situ titanium composites)
• Boeing (polymer matrix composites)
• Military Aircraft
• Intelligent sensor materials
• Low observable materials (not detectable by radar)
• Aero-engines