This article considers the main materials used to make aircraft, both fuselage and engines. First, the problems that force developers to introduce new materials in aircraft production are identified. We then present features of the introduction of heat-resistant titanium alloys, ways of improving the mechanical properties of parts made of titanium alloys, and methods of manufacturing complex details. Other promising materials for the aviation industry, such as high-entropy alloys, quasicrystals, carbon-carbon materials, and nickel foam, are also considered.
The main materials for 3D printing of titanium are fine metal alloy powders from which produce final articles with required quality. These powders must have definite chemical compositions, physical/mechanical characteristics, and also necessary operational properties. Key parameters of titanium alloy powders are homogeneity of chemical compositions, microstructures as well as flow ability. Conventional atomisation methods for metal powders like GA, PREP, PA, etc, are complicated and sufficiently expensive. Alternative production route is usage of complex processing technology of titanium alloy scrap as initial raw material. Spheriodised powder manufacturing scheme which includes raw material preparation, preliminary and final treatments have been presented. At the first step titanium scrap was divided according to titanium alloy types, purified from contaminants and oxide films. Then prepared materials were converted to non-spherical powders with definite fractional compositions using hydrogenation/de-hydrogenation (HDH) method.
Experimental HDH equipment allows close cycle of hydrogen recovery almost without losses. Obtained non-spherical powders were treated in the plasma unit yielding spherical titanium alloy. Offered technical solutions permit production of raw materials for 3D printing from scrap with high actual yield of required fractional compositions.
Samples of products of domestic nonspherical powders of VT-20 titanium alloy were produced by the method of electron beam 3D fusion. Microstructure of deposited metal is pore-free, finely dispersed and uniform over the entire surface of the section. It is acicular a′-phase of titanium with a small content of b-phase. Sample microhardness is from HV 3960 to HV 4150 MPa. Uniform distribution of alloying elements and decreased content of aluminium due to its volatility in deposition was noted. Presence of insignificant porosity and increased roughness on part edges was detected. The methods of their elimination were obtained. 10 Ref., 1 Table , 11 Figures.
Development of the fundamentals of a technology for producing niobium by the concomitant extraction in the process of production of titanium tetrachloride from titanium raw materials. The paper provides data on the amount of niobium contained in the feedstock to produce titanium tetrachloride, the distribution of niobium during processing by products and waste. The forms of phase transformations and transitions of niobium during processing are considered. Schemes for processing niobium-containing chloride materials and technologies for their further application for producing alloys for nuclear power are proposed.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.