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Within the context of this book, a “Light Alloy” is a metallic system based on aluminium, magnesium, titanium or beryllium. This definition includes metal matrix composites (MMC’s), where the matrix is one of the light alloys, and the growing family of hybrid metal/polymer laminated materials.
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Hussey, B., Wilson, J. (1998). Review. In: Light Alloys. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5777-7_1
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