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Superalloy resources: supply and availability
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Stephens, Joseph R. |
| Copyright Year | 1987 |
| Description | Over the past several decades there have been shortages of strategic materials because of our near total import dependence on such metals as chromium, cobalt, and tantalum. In response to the continued vulnerability of U.S. superalloy producers to disruptions in resource supplies, NASA has undertaken a program to address alternatives to the super-alloys containing significant quantities of the strategic materials such as chromium, cobalt, niobium, and tantalum. The research program called Conservation of Strategic Aerospace Materials (COSAM) focuses on substitution, processing, and alternate materials to achieve its goals. In addition to NASA Lewis Research Center, universities and industry play an important role in the COSAM Program. This paper defines what is meant by strategic materials in the aerospace community, presents a strategic materials index, and reviews the resource supply and availability picture from the U.S. point of view. In addition, research results from the COSAM Program are highlighted and future directions for the use of low strategic material alloys or alternate materials are discussed. |
| File Size | 7278012 |
| Page Count | 48 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19870011644 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8rc1z16x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1987-04-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Metallic Materials Tantalum Stockpiling Heat Resistant Alloys Strategic Materials Intermetallics Chromium Nasa Space Programs Cobalt Niobium Aerospace Industry Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |