Hot Isostatic Pressing: Hip'17: 10 (Materials Research Proceedings)

Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) has important applications in advanced materials manufacturing automotive aerospace oil and gas industries power generation and medical and nuclear fields. The symposium focused on HIP applications in such areas as material optimization radioactive nuclear waste cast aluminum alloys ceramic materials superalloys manufacturing of turbine blisks densification of additive manufactured parts diffusion welding of dissimilar metals and alloys heat treatment inside the HIP unit turbopump components improved tooling materials valve spindles for engines Ni-base superalloys titanium aluminide stainless steels metal matrix composites phase transformations uniform load cooling equipment duplex steel diamond/SiC composites large hot zone units additive manufacturing efficient modeling reactor vessel fabrication electron beam welding superconducting magnet structures.