The Basic law underpinning The Development of Advanced Materials and their Manufacturing Processes

When you're dealing with jet engines, increased efficiency means turning up the heat. - This fundamental law provides lots of challenges to the metallurgical and materials science commuities. Indeed working in these areas provided some of my greatest challenges particularily in superalloy process research and industrial development and solving these gave me immense satisfaction.

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REF: Optimizing deoxidation and desuIphurization during vacuum induction melting of alloy 718,

J. Alexander, Materials Science and Technology, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, Feb 1985, pp. 167 - 170.

(This paper is now available via internet,via Maney Press and freely available to members of IOM3, The Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining)

Other work : Technique to select recycled superalloy materials, involving removing rejection rate by good raw materials practice (and practised) to the satisfaction of steelworks management. "Trace Elements in Superalloys" J. Alexander, Proc The Metals Society,London1983.

MAJOR CITATIONS:

1988_THE MAGNESIUM PROBLEM IN SUPERALLOYS , (pdf)(cf. ref4.)
A. Mitchell, M. Hilbom, E. Samuelsson and A. Kanagawa 
Dept. of Metals & Materials Engineering,UBC,Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T lW5
Superalloys 1988, Edited by S. Reichman, D.N. Duhl, G. Maurer, S. Antolovich and C. Lund 

The Metallurgical Society, 1988 

1994_PROGRESS IN  UNDERSTANDING    CLEAN METAL   PRODUCTION   FOR IN718, 
"Desulphurisation   has been brought  to a fine  art by steelmakers, who  now 
routinely  produce very  large heats of low-cost  steels with  sulphur  contents at a few ppm"
A.   Mitchell, Dept. of  Metals and Materials Engineering UBC Vancouver BC Canada V6T 124 
Superalloys  718,625,706  andvarious    Derivatives Ed.  by  E.A. Loria 
The Minerals,  Metals  &Materials    Society,  1994