PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF DISPERSION-STRENGTHENED METALS.

Abstract

Dispersion-strengthened metals offer potential usefulness at temperatures up to ninety percent of their melting temperatures because of their outstanding mechanical stability at elevated temperatures. In addition, most physical and chemical properties are relatively unaffected by the presence of an inert dispersion. Thus, design engineers may be able to select the base metal alloy for properties other than its strength and then incorporate a dispersion in it to obtain the required strength. At present, dispersion-strengthened alloys of aluminum, copper, nickel, and tungsten are commercially available, and alloys of several other refractory, ferrous, and nonferrous metals are being developed. The metallurgical and design characteristics of these alloys are reviewed in this paper. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0669615

Entities

People

  • Stanley M. Wolf

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Base Metal
  • Chemical Properties
  • Dispersions
  • Elements
  • Engineers
  • Metals
  • Tungsten

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Metallurgy