DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION OF BORON/ALUMINUM STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS FOR SPACE SHUTTLE VOLUME Ⅳ:REPAIRABILITY

摘要

This portion of the program was performed to determine the repairability of boron/aluminum structural components. Previous program reports defined design and manufacturing criteria necessary for the successful application of these composites and verified their applicability through structural testing. This report demonstrates that metal matrix com¬posite material, damaged in service, can be repaired by techniques that are not very different from those currently in use for conventional mate¬rials.nA list of repair guidelines was prepared to aid in determining the proper repair techniques for a given structure. These guidelines included spec-ifying types of repair material and their applicability, corrosion preven¬tion procedures, design criteria, and inspection criteria.