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Assessment of Titanium Aluminide Alloys for High-Temperature Nuclear Structural Applications

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Titanium aluminide (TiAl) alloys exhibit high specific strength, low density, good oxidation, corrosion, and creep resistance at elevated temperatures, making them good candidate materials for aerospace and automotive applications. TiAl alloys also show excellent radiation resistance and low neutron activation, and they can be developed to have various microstructures, allowing different combinations of properties for various extreme environments. Hence, TiAl alloys may be used in advanced nuclear systems as high-temperature structural materials. Moreover, TiAl alloys are good materials to be used for fundamental studies on microstructural effects on irradiation behavior of advanced nuclear structural materials. This article reviews the microstructure, creep, radiation, and oxidation properties of TiAl alloys in comparison with other nuclear structural materials to assess the potential of TiAl alloys as candidate structural materials for future nuclear applications.

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  1. Institute of Materials Engineering, Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organization, Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, Sydney, NSW, 2232, Australia

    Hanliang Zhu, Tao Wei, David Carr, Robert Harrison & Lyndon Edwards

  2. Nuclear Energy and Safety, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), 5232, Villigen, Switzerland

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  3. Materials and Component Technologies Group, Aerospace Portfolio, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Dongyi Seo

  4. Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Kouichi Maruyama

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Zhu, H., Wei, T., Carr, D. et al. Assessment of Titanium Aluminide Alloys for High-Temperature Nuclear Structural Applications. JOM 64, 1418–1424 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-012-0471-5

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