Aerospace engineering requirements in building with composites - ScienceDirect
The growing use of composite material has arisen from their high specific strength and stiffness when compared to the more conventional materials, and the ability to tailor their structure to produce aerodynamically more efficient structural configurations. In this introductory chapter, it is argued that fiber-reinforced polymers, especially carbon fiber-reinforced plastics can and will, in the near future, contribute more than 50% of the structural mass of an aircraft
