A Sourcebook of Titanium Alloy Superconductivity

1. Front Matter

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2. Titanium Alloy Superconductors—A Tabulated Review

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   Pages 1-122

3. Unalloyed Titanium

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   Pages 123-130

4. Titanium-Vanadium Binary Alloys

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   Pages 131-151

5. Binary Alloys of Titanium with Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, or Nickel

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   Pages 153-168

6. Binary Alloys of Titanium with the Second-Long-Period (4d) and Third-Long-Period (5d)Transition Elements

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   Pages 169-205

7. Ternary Alloys of Titanium with Simple Metals and Transition Metals (Except Niobium)

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   Pages 207-212

8. Titanium-Niobium Binary Alloys

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   Pages 213-298

9. Titanium-Niobium and Titanium-Niobium-Base Alloys Containing Small Additions of Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, or Oxygen

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   Pages 299-316

10. Ternary Alloys of Titanium-Niobium with Simple Metals

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    Pages 317-339

11. Soviet Technical Alloys

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    Pages 341-346

12. Titanium-Zirconium-Niobium Ternary Alloys

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    Pages 347-377

13. Titanium-Niobium-Base Ternary Transition-Metal Alloys (Except Titanium-Zirconium-Niobium)

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    Pages 379-404

14. Titanium-Niobium Base Quaternary Alloys

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    Pages 405-421

15. Amorphous Titanium Alloy Superconductors

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    Pages 423-434

16. Back Matter

    Pages 435-511

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In less than two decades the concept of supercon­ In every field of science there are one or two ductivity has been transformed from a laboratory individuals whose dedication, combined with an innate curiosity to usable large-scale applications. In the understanding, permits them to be able to grasp, late 1960's the concept of filamentary stabilization condense, and explain to the rest of us what that released the usefulness of zero resistance into the field is all about. For the field of titanium alloy marketplace, and the economic forces that drive tech­ superconductivity, such an individual is Ted Collings. nology soon focused on niobium-titanium alloys. They His background as a metallurgist has perhaps given him are ductile and thus fabricable into practical super­ a distinct advantage in understanding superconduc­ conducting wires that have the critical currents and tivity in titanium alloys because the optimization of fields necessary for large-scale devices. More than superconducting parameters in these alloys has been 90% of all present-day applications of superconductors almost exclusively metallurgical. Advantages in use titanium alloys. The drive to optimize these training and innate abilities notwithstanding, it is alloys resulted in a flood of research that has been the author's dedication that is the essential com­ collected, condensed, and analyzed in this volume.

• Metall
• Superconductor
• alloy
• composite
• crystal
• deformation
• iron
• magnetic properties
• superconductivity
• thin films

• Materials Department, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbos, USA

  E. W. Collings

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