Reported By: School of Materials and Engineering
Translated By: HU Yujia
Edited By: Jonathan Wylie
With support from the 863 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the HIT Youth Talent Project and the Outstanding Talent of Basic Research Cultivation Project, the review paper, Microstructurally Inhomogeneous Composites: Is a homogeneous reinforcement distribution optimal?, was published in the February 2015 edition of the internationally renowned journal, Progress in Materials Science. The first author of the article, and the first corresponding author, is Associate Professor HUANG Lujun from the School of Materials and Engineering of HIT, and the second author is Professor GENG Lin.
Progress in Materials Science is a journal, publishing review articles covering most areas of materials science. It is internationally renowned and invites famous scientists in the field of materials to write review papers and to make comments on the present and future of the field, thus having important influence in the academic circles of the materials science field. Progress in Materials Science publishes six to eight issues every year, and includes one to three papers per issue. In 2014, its impact factor was 25.87. The paper, Microstructurally Inhomogeneous Composites: Is a homogeneous reinforcement distribution optimal?, is the first one of the School of Materials and Engineering published in this journal, and the first paper with the highest impact factor published in the first unit by the School of Materials and Engineering.
In recent years, metal matrix composites have played a more and more important role in the fields of aviation, aerospace, weapons and equipment with irreplaceable import. However, more and more materials experts have come to realize that the effect of the homogeneous distribution of reinforcements within a matrix material is always less than expected, especially the titanium matrix composites (TMCs) fabricated by powder metallurgy, which is limited by its brittleness. In 2008, HUANG challenged the bottleneck problem of TMCs fabricated by powder metallurgy while working on his doctoral research. Based on extensive reading of the literature and his experimental basis, he first proposed and designed reticular titanium matrix composites, which not only solved the formal problem but also increased the enhancement of room temperature and high temperature to a greater extent. Based on excellent results and innovation of the reticular titanium matrix composites, HUANG won the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Youth Fund Project. This most recent paper focused primarily on recent achievements of the heterogeneous distribution of composite material and looked forward to its future development based on recent achievements. The full text is 76 pages, and includes 276 cited references.
