Provision of Critical Experimental Results for Emerging Titanium Powder Metallurgy Approaches - From Reduce Cost Powder to Forgings

The numerous research efforts associated with the wide variety of titanium powder metallurgy approaches provides many new challenges and opportunities. This talk will focus on experimental evidence to characterize structure at a wide range of length scales for some of the new powder approaches (e.g., the Armstrong Process), including complex morphologies, evidence for the location of trace levels of sodium, and the role of native surface oxide layers on consolidated interstitial levels.  This talk will also provide preliminary microstructural details associated with additively deposited material that has been subsequently forged using deposition approaches that require less energy than melt-based additive manufacturing approaches.