B Project B3: Ti powder processing
Project Leader: Professor Graham Schaffer - University of Queensland
Staff/students
The aim of this project is to develop new titanium alloys and processing strategies for the net shape processing of components using the blended elemental powder metallurgy (PM) and powder forging (PF) approaches. The project contains three vertically integrated streams:  
Schaffer, Graham
Berquist, Cheryl
Robertson, Ian
Low, Ray
Guo, Gregory
Chan, Sammy
Bian, Singhai
Xia, Kenong
Wu, Xiaolin
Bettles, Colleen
Lapovok, Rimma
1. The analysis of titanium powder surface chemistry.
2. The understanding and enhancement of the sintering of titanium.
3. The development of forging strategies to produce fully dense components from sintered pre-forms.