Application of Alloy Steels to Aircraft Industry

Abstract

INCREASED industrial production cannot by itself make a nation prosperous unless proper economic measures are resorted to in the use of such products. This is part-icularly true in the case of a vital product like steel. It is indeed most appropriate that this symposium on Production, Properties and Applications of Alloy and Special Steels ' should be held at a time when the country is on the threshold of rapid industrialization under the Second Five Year Plan with heavy targets in steel output. The subject of the symposium has a vast scope. I shall, however, confine my discussion to the application of alloy steels to aircraft industry. An insight into the steel requirements of the aircraft industry will assist in the formulation of definite standards for such of those varieties which can be made within the ambit of raw materials available in this country.