Titanium Powder Metallurgy

Dr Ma Qian is a Distinguished Professor of the School of Engineering at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include metal additive manufacturing, powder metallurgy of light metals and alloys, solidification processing, metallic biomaterials, high entropy and medium entropy alloys, biomimetic design and lattice materials. He has published 225 peer-reviewed journal papers (nearly 100 papers on titanium), which have attracted more than 8200 Scopus citations as of November 2019 (>7300 excluding self-citations). He initiated the biennial international conference on Titanium Powder Metallurgy in 2011 (co-sponsored by Materials Australia, TiDA, TMS, JSPM and CSM) and served as the Organising Committee Chair and Conference Co-Chair for the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (2017 and 2019). Currently, He serves as an editorial member for a number of journals, including as an Associate Editor for both Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia. Professor Qian was also chosen as an APMI (American Powder Metallurgy Institute) Fellow in 2025, and as an ASMI (American Society of Metals International) Fellow in 2020. Dr. Froes has been involved in the Titanium field with an emphasis on Powder Metallurgy (P/M) for more than 40 years. He was employed by a primary Titanium producer—Crucible Steel Company—where he was leader of the Titanium group. He was the program manager on a multi-million dollar US Air Force (USAF) contract on Titanium P/M. He then spent time at the USAF Materials Lab where he was supervisor of the Light Metals group (which included Titanium). This was followed by 17 years at the University of Idaho where he was a Director and Department Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department. He has over 800 publications, in excess of 60 patents, and has edited almost 30 books—the majority on various aspects of Titanium again with an emphasis on P/M. He gave the key-note presentation at the first TDA (ITA) Conference. In recent years he has co-sponsored four TMS Symposia on Cost Effective Titanium featuring numerous papers on P/M. He is a Fellow of ASM, is a member of the Russian Academy of Science, and was awarded the Service to Powder Metallurgy by the Metal Powder Association.

• About the EditorsPreface1. Introduction2. Conventional Titanium Powder Production3. Electrolytic Production of Titanium Powder and Compaction of the Powder 4. The FFC Cambridge Process 5. Direct Titanium Powder Production by Metallothermic Processes6. Research Based Titanium Powder Processes7. Production of Titanium Hydride-dehydride Powder8. Low Cost Titanium Hydride Powder Metallurgy9. Production of Titanium by The Armstrong Process®10. Hydrogen Sintering of Titanium and its Alloys11. Warm Compaction of Titanium and its Alloys12. Pressureless Sintering of Titanium and its Alloys13. Spark Plasma Sintering and Hot Pressing of Titanium and its Alloys14. Microwave Sintering of Titanium and Titanium Hydride 15. Scavenging of Oxygen and Chlorine from PM Titanium During Sintering16. Titanium Metal Matrix Composites by PM Routes17. Titanium Components Manufacture from Blended Elemental Powder and the Qualification Process18. Titanium Components Manufacture from Prealloyed Powder using Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP)19. Metal Injection Moulding of Titanium20. Powder-Processing Linkages to Properties for Complex Titanium Shapes by Injection Moulding21. Titanium Sheet Fabrication from Powder22. Cold Spray Processing of Titanium and Titanium Alloy23. Thermal Spray Forming of Titanium24. Additive Manufacturing of Titanium25. Evaluation of Ti PM Products26. Ti PM: Requirements for Structural Components27. Powder Metallurgy of Titanium Aluminide28. Porous Titanium Structures and Applications29. Microstructural Characterisation of As-sintered Titanium and Titanium Alloys30. Current and Future Markets for Ti PM31. Ti PM for the Future