Archive for the ‘Lithium Alloys’ Category
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Aluminum Co. of America still offers millions of pounds of its aluminum-lithium alloy scrap to secondary smelters, but they are using it either in small amounts or refusing it altogether, a spot check of the industry indicated recently.
Potential damage to refractories and the possibility of explosion are cited by opponents ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
From the 10th plane on, each of the new A320 series of short-range 150-seaters rolling out of Airbus Industrie's final assembly facilities at Toulouse, France, could contain several hundred pounds of aluminum-lithium alloys. That also will be the case for other commercial aircraft programs planned by this European consortium.
"I'm absolutely ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
As advanced materials applications are perfected for lithium, demand for the silvery-white metal could increase, according to a recent International Strategic Minerals Inventory report.
ISMI is a cooperative effort by earth science and mineral resource agencies in Australia, Canada, West Germany and the United States. The program was started in 1981 ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Boeing is working with an aluminum-lithium alloy developed by Inco Ltd., according to Edward Burrell, vice president of marketing for Inco. Called AL-905XL, it can be used in landing gear, aircraft wheels and even seat supports.
Textron Aerostructures, which builds wing structures for the B-1B, the L-1011 and recently won ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Among the specific contributions and potentials of rapid solidifications are: increased solid solubility, minimization of segregation, highly refined grain size, modification or elimination of segregation phases, possibility of glass formation and production of new metastable microcrystalline structures.
Corresponding improvements have been achieved in mechanical, corrosive, magnetic and other properties, higher ultimate ...
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Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Aluminum-lithium alloys have been developed primarily to reduce the weight of aircraft and aerospace structures. More recently, they have been investigated for use in cryogenic applications.
The major development work began in the 1970-1980, when aluminum producers accelerated the development of aluminum-lithium alloys as replacements for conventional airframe alloys. The lower-density ...
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