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Article: Aluminum structural castings: following aircraft's lead.
- Article from:
- Modern Casting
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Inside This Story:
* An understanding of the relationship between the aircraft and metalcasting industries has opened up the opportunity for cast components to play a more important role in aircraft structures.
* Detailed within are the unique requirements of the aircraft industry and how every metalcaster can use this information to expand their customer base.
Cast components have been used on aircrafts for many years. For the most part, they have been relegated to secondary structures, such as doors, handles, inlet rings and other non-structural applications. But recent advancement in the performance of cast aluminum alloys (such as D357) ...