Creating Strong Titanium/Titanium Hydride Brown Bodies at Ambient Pressure and Moderate Temperatures

A simple, low temperature, method, hydrogen-enhanced atomic transport (HEAT), for creating metallic-bonded brown bodies of order 40% bulk density in molds of designed shape from Ti metal particles is introduced. In this initial study 40 micron titanium particles were poured into graphite molds, then heated to temperatures equal to or greater than 650 °C for four hours in a flowing ambient pressure gas mixture containing some hydrogen led to...