Fibre Metal Laminate
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A Fibre Metal Laminate (or FML) is one of a class of metallic materials consisting of a laminate of several thin metal layers bonded with layers of composite material. This allows the material to behave much as a simple metal structure, but with considerable specific advantages regarding properties such as metal fatigue, impact, corrosion resistance, fire resistance, weight-savings and specialised strength properties.
Being a mixture of monolithic metals and composite materials, FMLs belong to the class of heterogeneous mixtures (see below).
Examples of FMLs are ARALL (Aramid fibres) and GLARE.
