Talk:GLARE (material)
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I had to remove the original page for GLARE and replace it completely, since despite being extremely brief it managed to contain several gross inaccuracies - most notably that it was classed as a composite (which it is not!) and was attributed to "Stokker", developed in the 1990s.
Geoff Morris, October 2004
[edit] Glare is NOT a composite!!!
I see that Glare has again been pushed into the "composite material" category, when I clearly explain in the introduction that it is NOT!
If it must be classified, then "heterogenous mixture" is the only correct description.
Glare is itself a MIXTURE of a METAL and a COMPOSITE. The Wikipedia description of a composite material (at the time of writing) states quite clearly that a composite consists of reinforcement and matrix... which only describes the fibre layers, totally ignoring the metal layers which make up the majority component!
I will have to edit the article again since people seem unable to grasp this concept.
Geoff Morris, February 2006
- The above Wikipedia definition was not in accord with industry or materials science usage of "composite material"; the current WP article is, and quite properly GLARE matches the current (and industry and materials science) definitions of being a composite material. I have put the category back in and fixed the description in the article intro. Georgewilliamherbert 19:01, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How about filling this in for Glare?
this is copied from its competitor material aluminium
- density gplstp=
- density gpcm3nrt=2.70
- heat capacity=24.200
- thermal conductivity=237
- thermal conductivity 2=
- thermal diffusivity=
- thermal expansion=
- thermal expansion at 25=23.1
- speed of sound rod at r.t.=(rolled) 5000
- Young's modulus=70
- Shear modulus=26
- Bulk modulus=76
- Poisson ratio=0.35
- Mohs hardness=2.75
- Vickers hardness=167
- Brinell hardness=245
- CAS number=7429-90-5
Andries 19:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice idea, but impossible to fill in such figures since they vary depending on the layup and layer thicknesses... as well as the alloy, glass type and matrix materials applied. - MossMan (talk • contribs) 09:40, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References or Sources
I see that the article has been flagged as missing sources. Well I used my own work and experience - so apart from the "Around Glare" book, there's not a lot of generic description to cite from. MossMan 09:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
