Advanced Technologies for Superalloys Affordability

These papers address research and development, both industrial and academic, on technologies that reduce component acquisition and system life cycle costs.

They are divided into four sections: processing improvement; addressing methods to increase the productivity and quality of superalloys; new process/new alloys, covering innovations in manufacturing or enhanced alloy chemistry for superalloy components; process modelling that reduces trial-and-error steps in superalloy melting, casting, forging, heat treatment, machining, and powder processing; and simulation of microstructure/properties providing prediction of alloy microstructure, phase relationship, and expected properties after specific processing operation.