B Project B2: ECAE of aerospace Ti alloy
Project Leader: Dr. Rimma Lapovok - Monash University
Staff/students
The new titanium production technologies that have the potential to transform the light metals industry all produce powders as a final product. These powders need to be consolidated to make either components or feedstock (such as billet) for other secondary manufacturing processes (such as forging).  
Lapovok, Rimma
Curtis, Daniel
Tomus, Dacian
The aim of this project is to produce such forging billets directly from powder at low temperatures. This will be achieved using equal channel angular extrusion with back pressure. The outcomes will be a set of defined processing conditions for the enhanced processing of titanium powder.