Archive for the ‘High Temp Metals’ Category

Design for High-Temperature Applications: Part Two

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

This article continued discussion on time-dependent deformation and fracture of structural materials at elevated temperatures, by analyzing: * effects of fracture at elevated temperatures * environmental conditions * creep rupture data presentation and * damage accumulation and life prediction. Fracture at Elevated Temperatures The constant load creep rupture test is the basis for design data for ...

Grounded: the commercial aviation slump has left specialty metals dealers looking for a silver lining - Commodity Focus

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The commercial airline sector has been in financial turmoil in the past year, and the reduction in new aircraft manufacturing has negatively affected the consumption of specialty and high-temp alloys, such as titanium, chromium and nickel. According to a report in the December 13 edition of Manufacturing News, civil aviation sales ...

Hi-Temp’s Island dreams light a fire in Babylon

Friday, July 20th, 2007

When local leaders learned Canon USA was eyeing the Garden State, the Suffolk Industrial Development Agency offered up to $35 million in tax breaks to keep Canon here. Now, Babylon's IDA is working overtime to lure Hi-Temp Specialty Metals Inc.'s headquarters from Willingboro, N.J., to Deer Park. The economic development group ...

Taking off: nickel alloys are in demand, while aircraft orders could help titanium take off. It appears as if the atmosphere for specialty metals is improving

Friday, July 20th, 2007

The aerospace industry is the bull in the high-temp and titanium alloy markets. If aerospace is asleep, any bull market in specialty metals is dead to the world, too. But put a bit of spark into aircraft, and the bull starts shaking in the specialty metals market. Like Sleeping Beauty, the ...

DRMS hi-temp alloy values firm - Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, high temperature scrap metals - Scrap

Friday, July 20th, 2007

CHICAGO - Prices for high-temperature alloy scrap remained firm in a pair of recent sales by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service. Some scrap industry sources attributed this to the recent upsurge in world prices for cobalt metal, especially for superalloys with both nickel and cobalt. Even small lots of cobalt ...

Special Metals hikes high-temp alloys

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Special Metals hikes high-temp alloys PITTSBURGH--Special Metals Corp. late last week said that it was hiking the price of its high-temperature alloy products by about 4.5 percent across the board effective with orders Friday. The New Hartford, N.Y.,-based producer of high-temperature long products attributed the increase to rising raw materials costs, including ...

Customizable Adhesives suit high-temperature applications

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Resbond 940 series of 3,000[degrees]F ceramic adhesives is available in various grades of thermal expansion, as machinable, metallic-based, and electrically or thermally conductive. Able to adhere to quartz, cordierite, fused silica, glassware, ceramics, and metals, product cures in 4-8 hr at room temperature or in 5 min at 175[degrees]F. Adhesives, ...

Classification of Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Steels can be classified by a variety of different systems depending on: The composition, such as carbon, low-alloy or stainless steel. The manufacturing methods, such as open hearth, basic oxygen process, or electric furnace methods. The finishing method, such as hot rolling or cold rolling The product form, such as bar plate, sheet, strip, ...