Wrought Copper and Copper-Base Alloys

Abstract

N^ith restrictions on the use of critical materials, it becomes increasingly important to use all available information that will contribute toward their conservation.This can be done to a large degree by using corrosion-preventive measures to increase the life of metallic parts and equipment and by taking advantage of existing data in the selection of materials of construction. This review of the literature, along with previous reviews, provides a considerable amount of information regarding: alloy compositions, specifications, mechanical and physical properties, fabrication properties and techniques, and corrosion resistance of copper and copper alloys under a wide variety of conditions. This information should aid in the use of copper and its alloys so that they will be applied in a manner that will take full advantage of all their properties. The bibliography has been reduced considerably but sufficient information is presented to give a reasonably good cross section of the latest work and data available, although even now much could he added which must of necessity wait until the next review. INTHE latest ASTM standards for copper and copper alloy s(£), released in January 1951, a number of changes and improvements are evident. For example, specification B88 for seamless copper water tubes covers the three types of tubes generally used.

110th Anniversary: The Missing Link Unearthed: Materials and Process Intensification

“…Traditionally, materials used in chemical engineering operations were primarily materials of construction, and one of the first review papers in that area appeared in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in 1932. 7 Shortly after World War II, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry published a series of articles under a common title, "Materials of Construction", that included aluminum alloys, 8 cements, 9 ceramics, 10 wrought copper and copper-based alloys, 11 elastomers, 12 fibers, 13 iron, mild steels and low alloy steels, 14 nickel and high nickel alloys, 15 plastics, 16 hard rubber, 17 stainless steels, and other ferrous alloys. 18 More recently, a chapter on construction materials in the chemical industry was published in Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.…”