`Navy topside weight reduction composite structures study`
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Holman's master's thesis work. Open- and closed-cell aluminum foam sandwich structures, dip-brazed in molten sodium fluoride, evaluated as topside-weight alternatives to monolithic aluminum. Holman shows samples. Discusses maintainability barrier to field deployment.
The only other thing I'll end with today: Professor Eagar talked about the Navy and trying to reduce topside weight. [Holman holds up sandwich-structure samples.] These were a couple samples from back when I was doing my master's thesis. One of the things we were looking at was, could the Navy use sandwich-type structures or composite structures with different materials rather than just monolithic pieces of aluminum on the topside?