The Battlefield Effect of Using Advanced Composite Structures

摘要

Materials play a key part in our everyday life, and with the development of new and improved materials we are able to further advance our technologies, and with this our way of life. The impact of materials has been so fundamental to the advancement of mankind that important eras in history have recognised them in name (Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc.); even geography credits the importance of materials - for example Silicon Valley. It is widely accepted that the desire for new and improved materials is driven by such factors as the space race, and of course modern warfare.