Titanium Powder Metallurgy: Science, Technology and Applications

Titanium Powder Metallurgy contains the most comprehensive and authoritative information for, and understanding of, all key issues of titanium powder metallurgy (Ti PM). It summarizes the past, reviews the present and discusses the future of the science and technology of Ti PM while providing the world titanium community with a unique and comprehensive book covering all important aspects of titanium powder metallurgy, including powder production, powder processing, green shape formation, consolidation, property evaluation, current industrial applications and future developments. It documents the fundamental understanding and technological developments achieved since 1937 and demonstrates why powder metallurgy now offers a cost-effective approach to the near net or net shape fabrication of titanium, titanium alloys and titanium metal matrix composites for a wide variety of industrial applications.

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of the science, technology and industrial practice of titanium powder metallurgyEach chapter is delivered by the most knowledgeable expert on the topic, half from industry and half from academia, including several pioneers in the field, representing our current knowledge base of Ti PM. Includes a critical review of the current key fundamental and technical issues of Ti PM.Fills a critical knowledge gap in powder metal science and engineering and in the manufacture of titanium metal and alloys

About the Editors Preface 1. Introduction 2. Conventional Titanium Powder Production 3. Electrolytic Production of Titanium Powder and Compaction of the Powder 4. The FFC Cambridge Process 5. Direct Titanium Powder Production by Metallothermic Processes 6. Research Based Titanium Powder Processes 7. Production of Titanium Hydride-dehydride Powder 8. Low Cost Titanium Hydride Powder Metallurgy 9. Production of Titanium by The Armstrong Process(R) 10. Hydrogen Sintering of Titanium and its Alloys 11. Warm Compaction of Titanium and its Alloys 12. Pressureless Sintering of Titanium and its Alloys 13. Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing of Titanium and its Alloys 14. Microwave Sintering of Titanium and Titanium Hydride 15. Scavenging of Oxygen and Chlorine from PM Titanium During Sintering 16. Titanium Metal Matrix Composites by PM Routes 17. Titanium Components Manufacture from Blended Elemental Powder and the Qualification Process 18. Titanium Components Manufacture from Prealloyed Powder using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) 19. Metal Injection Moulding of Titanium 20. Powder-Processing Linkages to Properties for Complex Titanium Shapes by Injection Moulding 21. Titanium Sheet Fabrication from Powder 22. Cold Spray Processing of Titanium and Titanium Alloy 23. Thermal Spray Forming of Titanium 24. Additive Manufacturing of Titanium 25. Evaluation of Ti PM Products 26. Ti PM: Requirements for Structural Components 27. Powder Metallurgy of Titanium Aluminide 28. Porous Titanium Structures and Applications 29. Microstructural Characterisation of As-sintered Titanium and Titanium Alloys 30. Current and Future Markets for Ti PM 31. Ti PM for the Future