Titanium is a transversely isotropic material. Do any of the Epoxy resin based Composite materials or FGMs (Excluding ceramics) bear similar characteristics?
Specific requirement - Light weight
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Glass/epoxy composite or FGM
Carbon/epoxy composite or FGM
Both of them are light weight.
Anisotropy mean direction dependence for a certain property. Titanium as crystal already bears anisotropy as inherent property. In so far, any epoxy cannot offer this since it is not crystalline. On the other hand, anisotropy can be also produced by the shape of a materials (glas fibers; spheres would not generate an anisotropy) or a process (forging, wire drawing, directed solidification, i.e. a selected process direction). The major problem of such materials (compared to he inherent anisotropy of crystals) are the "complex" interfaces. Crystals also have boundaries, and also they are often not simple to handle, but glass-fiber epoxy composites tend to delaminate which is not (in general) the case for crystalline, single phase materials. If you want replace Titanium you need to say more, why do you want replace it since other materials very like have other drawbacks...which is mainly the reason that nobody could already substitute it. Welcome to the club :-).
Can used (Metal-ceramic) as functionally graded materials for examples
(Nitinol) FGM, (Ti-HAP), (Ti-TiO2)
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