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Titanium Alloys: Part 2—Alloy Development, Properties and Applications

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Titanium alloys are the principal replacements, and in many cases also prime candidate materials to replace (i) aerospace special and advanced steels, owing to their significantly higher usable specific strength properties, (ii) aluminium alloys due to their better elevated temperature properties and (iii) nickel-base superalloys for much of the high pressure compressors (HPCs) of modern engines, owing to their superior medium temperature (up to 550 °C) creep strength and acceptable oxidation and corrosion resistances. This chapter summarizes the chemical compositions, properties and applications of commercially pure α-titanium, near-α, α + β and β titanium alloys.

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The authors wish to place on record that Prof G. Lütjering would certainly have been included as an author but for his untimely demise. Nevertheless, the authors cannot thank him enough for the repository of knowledge that he has created in the second edition of the book on Titanium, published by Springer publications. The authors would like to thank Dr. A.K. Gogia, Dr. T.K. Nandy and Mr. Dipak K. Gupta of DMRL; Mr. Ramesh Babu, Mr. G.V.R. Murthy and Mr. U.V. Gururaja of Midhani; and, Mr. V.P. Deep Kumar of ADA for many inputs and technical data. They profoundly thank the editors, Dr. N. Eswara Prasad and Dr. R.J.H. Wanhill for their help in reviewing the contents of the book chapter and also for their constructive comments. The authors (AB and BS) are greatly indebted to Prof D. Banerjee, Dr. K. Tamilmani, Dr. Samir V. Kamat and Dr. Amol A. Gokhale for their kind support and encouragement. Funding from DRDO is gratefully acknowledged.

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  2. RCMA (Materials), CEMILAC, Hyderabad, India

    B. Saha

  3. Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

    J. C. Williams

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Bhattacharjee, A., Saha, B., Williams, J.C. (2017). Titanium Alloys: Part 2—Alloy Development, Properties and Applications. In: Prasad, N., Wanhill, R. (eds) Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies . Indian Institute of Metals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2134-3_6

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