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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 9:00 AM
TAL1.2

Assessment of Advanced Titanium Alloys for Affordability

J. Meudt, Ladish Co., Inc., Cudahy, WI

The concern with cost in the aerospace industry is increasing and there is a need to reduce these costs creating affordable applications.  There are new titanium alloys being designed to reduce the overall processing costs and to improve performance such as strength, stiffness, or microstructure over traditional titanium, steel, and aluminum alloys.  Three of these new titanium alloys; Timetal54M, Ti6-4 modified with boron, and Ti5553, have been evaluated and the forging, casting, and machineability results will be presented.

Summary: A review of three new advanced titanium alloys that are being developed to reduce costs and improve performance.