• Opportunities exist for specification upgrades based on modern
material properties.
• Producers as well as users can benefit by tightening specifications to reflect improved production capabilities.
• Change should be considered in terms of both production risks and marketing benefits.
• The H Grades will make titanium more competitive compared to other materials, and to some extent will help address the current shortage of titanium.
• User groups can fulfill the role of developing or optimizing requirements for materials that has traditionally been filled by the producer of the materials.
• Revisiting existing old data with modern analytical methods can produce useful/beneficial changes.
• Tighter limits on properties in product specifications may result in significantly higher design allowable stresses in codes and standards that use the statistical methods to determine these allowable stresses.
• Modernization of specifications to reflect the improvements in product quality and consistency is one way ASTM committees can contribute to making investments in improved material production worthwhile.
