Replies to post #2659 on Arcam AB fka AMAVF

[mauser96]

http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/ceramic-matrix-composites-heat-up

more on CMC

and this statement

“Ceramics customers currently working with NAFEN are hoping for improvements in fracture resistance, impact toughness, abrasion resistance and structural reinforcement,

titanium seems to have no problem with fracture resistance or impact toughness.
So the places where they compete might be limited, even if jet engines are one of the exceptions. But the blades of a jet engine to survive bird body ingestions at hundreds of miles per hour...