This may give away a little too much, but here is the list of structural materials in our game. Everything is either real or theoretically possible. We stay within hard science fiction. And... compare that with Star Wars and its duraplast, beskar, and one other kind of nonsense.
A1. Conventional & Industrial Metals
- Structural Steel - HSLA Steel (High-Strength Low-Alloy) - Stainless Steel (Austenitic/General Structural) - Cast Steel (Structural Grade) - Aluminum Alloy (General Structural) - Aluminum-Lithium Alloy - Magnesium Alloy (Structural, restricted use) - Copper Alloy (Structural/Thermal hybrid roles) - Engineered Timber (structural grade)
A2. High-Performance & Aerospace Alloys
- Titanium Alloy (general aerospace structural) - Beta Titanium Alloy - Maraging Steel - Nickel Superalloy (structural hot-zone class) - Cobalt Superalloy (specialized) - Zirconium Alloy (specialized structural/environmental) - Beryllium Alloy (restricted, hazardous, high specific stiffness) - Titanium Aluminide (intermetallic) - Nickel Aluminide (intermetallic)
A3. Refractory / Extreme-Temperature Alloys
- Tungsten Alloy - Molybdenum Alloy - Tantalum Alloy - Niobium Alloy - Refractory High-Entropy Alloy (RHEA) - ODS Nickel-Based Alloy - ODS Ferritic/Steel Alloy - UHT-capable Metal Matrix Composite (refractory MMC class)
A4. Ceramics / Cermets / UHTC
- Alumina Ceramic (structural grade) - Silicon Carbide Ceramic (SiC) - Boron Carbide Ceramic - Zirconia Ceramic (stabilized) - Silicon Nitride Ceramic - Aluminum Nitride Ceramic (specialized thermal) - Cermet (general metal-ceramic composite) - Graded Cermet (advanced) - MAX-Phase Ceramic-Class Material - Ultra-High-Temperature Ceramic (UHTC class) - Ceramic Foam (structural core grade)
A5. Polymer / Fiber Composites
- Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) - Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) - Aramid/Kevlar Composite - Hybrid Carbon-Aramid Composite - Basalt Fiber Composite - High-Temperature Polymer Matrix Composite - Radiation-tailored Polymer Composite Matrix (advanced) - Bio-composite Structural Polymer
A6. MMC / CMC / Hybrid Composites
- Metal Matrix Composite (MMC, general) - Ceramic Matrix Composite (CMC, general) - Carbon-Carbon Composite (specialized high-temp) - Fiber Metal Laminate (FML) - Nanolaminate Metal Composite - CNT-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composite - Graphene-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composite - Multi-material Gradient Structural Composite Node - Hybrid Metal-Ceramic-Composite Structural Section
A7. Bio-Engineered Structural Materials
- Engineered Biomass Composite Frame Stock - Bio-grown Composite Preform (for later infiltration) - Biomineralized Ceramic Scaffold - Bio-template Lattice (pre-mineralization) - Protein-guided Crystallization Template Material (advanced) - Bio-derived High-Performance Resin Matrix (advanced)
A8. Nanostructured / Advanced Hard-Sci-Fi Materials
- Nanograined Steel - Nanograined Titanium Alloy - Nanostructured High-Entropy Alloy - Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG, structural-limited) - Bulk Metallic Glass Composite (toughened) - Functionally Graded Material (FGM structural class) - Atomically Engineered Alloy (advanced) - Programmable Grain Texture Alloy (advanced) - Atomic-Interface-Optimized Multi-Phase Material (advanced) - Cryo-optimized Lattice Titanium Feedstock/Material System
Take that, Star Wars!!! ))))))))))))
