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For the last five years, the Structures, Materials and Propulsion Laboratory of the Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada, has devoted a significant amount of effort investigating powder metallurgy gamma titanium aluminides. The main results of the studies on microstructural evolution, hot workability, creep behaviour and microstructure-mechanical property relationships for P/M gamma alloys are reviewed in this article. Work is in progress to apply the knowledge gained to cast gamma alloys for gas turbine applications.
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Zhao, L., Beddoes, J., Au, P. et al. Evaluations of P/M Gamma Titanium Aluminides. Advanced Performance Materials 4, 421–434 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008600712578
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