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Cost-affordable titanium: The component fabrication perspective

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Titanium is the material of choice for a wide variety of applications. However, because of its relatively high price—a result of extraction and processing costs—it is used only when it is the only choice. This paper will overview the potential areas that are amenable to cost reduction for titanium products, emphasizing all steps in component fabrication from extraction and processing to the fabrication of final parts.

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  1. University of Idaho, McClure Hall Room 437, Moscow, ID, 83844-3026, USA

    F. H. Sam Froes (Director and Department Chair of the Institute for Materials and Advanced Processes)

  2. Concurrent Technologies Corporation in Johnstown, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

    Mehmet N. Gungor

  3. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Washington,D.C., USA

    M. Ashraf Imam

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Froes, F.H.S., Gungor, M.N. & Ashraf Imam, M. Cost-affordable titanium: The component fabrication perspective. JOM 59, 28–31 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-007-0074-8

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