Objective Age hardened copper alloys represent an important class of materials for high electrical and thermal conductivity applications such as electrodes for spot welding, conducting springs and various heat sinks and also for nonspark tools in the petroleum and chemical industries. One potential route for improving the properties in alloys not containing beryllium is through rapid solidification into thin sections followed by consolidation to a bulk form. It had been demonstrated that chill block melt spinning (CBMS) of copper chromium and copper zinc alloys into thin ribbons gave a substantial enhancement of solid solubility over the maximum values achievable by conventional solid state quenching. Consequently, on ageing, corresponding enhancements in strength occurred, in combination with high electrical conductivities. Such ductile, microcrystalline ribbon is not a practically useful form since it cannot conveniently be consolidated to bulk. Thus, it was proposed to rapidly solidify the copper alloys to a powder form by water atomization, which is a relatively inexpensive process, and to consolidate them into a rod form by warm extrusion of the vacuum canned powder. Fields of science natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrytransition metalsnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryalkaline earth metalsengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energypetroleum Programme(s) FP1-STIMULATION 1C - Plan (EEC) to stimulate European scientific and technical cooperation and interchange, 1985-1988 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD EU contribution No data Address WESTERN BANK S10 2TN SHEFFIELD United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnicas de Guipúzcoa Spain EU contribution No data Address 15,Paseo de Manuel de Lardizabal 15 20009 San Sebastián See on map Total cost No data NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Portugal EU contribution No data Address Estrada do Paco do Lumiar 22 1649-038 LISBOA See on map Total cost No data
