General Characteristics

Precision alloys are generally considered to be materials with specific mechanical properties. They are highly alloyed compounds with a precisely defined chemical composition. They are divided into groups according to certain properties. A distinction is made between steels:

- Magnetically soft.

- Magnetically hard

- With a specified elasticity property.

- Steels with a specified thermal coefficient of linear expansion.

- Superconducting

- Thermo-metals

These alloys have special physical and chemical characteristics, they are characterized by extreme precision of their composition, absence of foreign impurities, thoroughness of production and processing. Most of these alloys are based on iron, chromium, nickel, cobalt, copper, which gives the alloys those very special qualities that distinguish them from the rest. For example, a number of magnetically soft alloys (permalloy, permendur, perminvar, ferrite-nickel) or magnetically hard alloys (alni, manganin, viccaloy). Today it is difficult to do without alloys with specified electrical (alumel, copel, chromel), thermal (kovar, platinite) and elastic properties, without superconducting alloys (based on niobium with Zr, Ti, Mo, Tc, Re).

Concise Handbook of Precision Alloys

The technology for producing precision alloys differs in many ways from traditional metallurgy. The purity of the alloy itself, the absence of impurities is ensured by melting under special conditions, selection of the right charge for melting, using a special kind of remelting to obtain the purest possible alloy. Heat treatment of alloys is often carried out in a vacuum, hydrogen, and inert environments to avoid oxidation, and directional crystallization is used. The necessary qualities for a particular alloy are acquired not only by thermomechanical, but also by thermomagnetic treatment. Some of the alloys are obtained by composite technology and powder metallurgy. Supplied in the form of strips, wires, tubes, profiles.

Use

Without alloys with special properties today can't do without the production of precise instruments, standards of length measures, tuning forks, physical laboratory equipment, screens, computer memory elements. Without such alloys it is impossible to produce precise sensors, sensitive elements of devices, unique experimental and small-sized laboratory equipment, energy converters and converters. The production of televisions, clocks, radio receivers is also impossible without such alloys. They are a basis for progress in precision instrumentation, creating a variety of components for modern equipment. Use of such alloys provides not only special methods of manufacture but also demands high culture of exploitation.

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