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The 2010 TMS Annual Meeting symposium on Cost-Affordable Titanium III was a follow-on to symposia on the subject matter held at the 2004 and 2007 TMS Annual Meetings. The main purpose was to bring together scientists, researchers, and technologists to review the status of process technologies, materials development efforts, emerging applications, and economics/ affordability issues.
The scope was broad. Speakers from companies and universities involved in titanium production technology, vapor, solid and liquid titanium processing/ post-processing, alloy development, raicrostructure-property enhancement, modeling and simulation, and application and market development areas were invited to participate. The diverse mix of papers presented in the symposium reflects the breadth of activities in the cost-affordable use of titanium and emerging applications.
The opening overview paper by F.H. Froes and M. Ashraf Imam emphasized the work being done in many areas to realize titanium cost reduction, both in primary metal refining/production and in subsequent processing. What is particularly clear is thaï the impetus for broadening markets for titanium is very dependent on cost reduction, especially in cost-sensitive applications such as those found in the auto industry.
The symposium was organized into six sessions, with selected peer-reviewed papers from the symposium published in Key Engineering Materials, Vol. 436. The sessions were divided into three main topics; Low Cost Materials and Processing, Powder Consolidation and Properties, and Creative Processing and Property Enhancement.
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