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Status of Titanium Net-Shape Technology
Vogt, RG
Structural metals engineer and technical area manager of titanium programs, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Materials Laboratory, AFWAL/MLLS, OH

Eylon, D
Principal investigator, Metcut-Materials Research Group, OH

Froes, FH
Structural metals engineer and technical area manager of titanium programs, Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, Materials Laboratory, AFWAL/MLLS, OH


Pages: 15    Published: Jan 1986


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Abstract

The status of net-shape technologies in the titanium industry is reviewed in this paper including powder metallurgy, casting, and isothermal precision forging. Although titanium and its alloys are a design choice for many industrial and aerospace applications, use is still limited because of the relative high component cost, the result of high material processing, and machining costs. Net-shape technologies are an attractive avenue for reducing the cost without sacrificing properties and reliability. The three approaches to titanium net-shape technology offer a range of shape and property combinations. Titanium casting and isothermal precision forging are already an industrial reality and powder metallurgy is rapidly reaching such a position. The isothermal precision forging and powder metallurgy net-shape approaches not only offer lower cost and reduced material use, but also provide some mechanical properties superior to conventional products because of microstructural homogeneity and refinement.


Keywords:
titanium, powder metallurgy, casting, net shape, isothermal precision forging

Paper ID: STP18390S
Committee/Subcommittee: B10.01
DOI: 10.1520/STP18390S
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