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Applicability of powder metallurgy to problems of high temperature materials

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The paper reviews the efforts made to utilize powder metallurgy to solve problems encountered when using alloys at high temperatures. The following subjects are discussed: comparison of wrought and sintered super alloys, sintered aluminum powder, porous materials for transpiration cooling, molybdenum, and cermets.

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  1. Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Cleveland, USA

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Discussion on this paper, TP 3844E, may be sent, 2 copies, to AIME by Jan. 1, 1955. Manuscript, May 6, 1954. New York Meeting, February 1954.

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Ault, G.M., Deutsch, G.C. Applicability of powder metallurgy to problems of high temperature materials. JOM 6, 1214–1230 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398361

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