Zirconium aluminium alloy

Cladding. The Magnox reactors get their name from the magnesium-aluminium alloy used to clad the fuel elements, and stainless steels are used in other gas-cooled reactors. In water reactors zirconium alloys are the favoured cladding materials. 

Group B Aluminium and aluminium alloys, copper and copper alloys, titanium and zirconium. 

Dusts of magnesium, zirconium, titanium and some magnesium-aluminium alloys [1], and (when heated) of aluminium, chromium and manganese [2], when suspended in carbon dioxide atmospheres are ignitable and explosive, and several bulk metals will bum in the gas. 

Lead—tin alloys, 4877 Lead—zirconium alloys, 4878 Lithium—magnesium alloy, 4676 Lithium—tin alloys, 4677 Plutonium bismuthide, 0231 Potassium antimonide, 4668 Potassium—sodium alloy, 4641 Silicon—zirconium alloys, 4904 Silver—aluminium alloy, 0002 Silvered copper, 0003 Sodium germanide, 4412 Sodium—antimony alloy, 4791 Sodium—zinc alloy, 4792 Titanium—zirconium alloys, 4915... 

The method based on the use of DAM has been applied for determining titanium in biological materials [11], silicate rocks [32,99,100], cast iron and steel 33], molybdenum and tungsten [6,18], vanadium [18], zirconium, hafnium, and niobium [101], lithium fluoride [102], nickel, aluminium, and molybdenum alloys [11], and ferrotitanium [103]. Titanium was determined in aluminium alloys with the use of DAM in the presence of SnCh [35,104]. 

A thorough state of the art literature review on the corrosion of aluminium alloys was compiled by the IAEA in 1998. This review was published in IAEA-TECDOC-1012, Durability of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Facility Components in Wet Storage. It covered a wide range of quantitative and semi-quantitative data on cladding alloys used in nuclear fuel elements and assemblies, and included separate sections on corrosion of aluminium, zirconium, stainless steel, carbon steels and copper alloys in a wet storage... 

Coupling agents based on titanium and zirconium have been used to improve adhesive properties between polymers and filler-particles and to treat aluminium alloy for adhesive bonding [16]. Like the silanes, they react with surface hydroxyl groups as shown below, but there is no condensation polymerisation to produce a polymer network at the interface. 

The pressure tubes, which are made of zirconium alloy, are located within, but separated from the tubes of the aluminium alloy calandrla, which contains the heavy water moderator. A significant part of the moderation in the reactor takes place in the light water coolant, thereby reducing the heavy water Inventory appreciably. Also, since the heavy water temperature does not exceed 8o°C and the pressures in the moderator circuit are low, leakage losses of heavy water are likely to be very small. 

As we mentioned earlier in this chapter, fireclay, muUite, and alumina refractories have been used for the layer that is in contact with molten Al. There were trials of magnesia, zirconium, aluminium titanate, and silicmi carbide refractories. The results of these trials cannot be called tmsuccessful. Most likely, these trials were sustainable for the entire range of actions necessary at implementation of a new material. In a limited amount, these materials are used today (crucibles for secondary Al for low-pressure dye casting, runners between melting and holding furnaces for special alloys, burner blocks, tap hole blocks). Yet the existing technical decision is to use alumina silica refractories with a relatively sophisticated structure and antiwetting additives. 

J. D. Robson and P. B. Prangnell, Dispersoid precipitation and process modelling in zirconium containing commercial aluminium alloys, Acta Mater., vol. 49, pp. 599-613, 2001. 

Certain metals/alloys - the alkali metals (lidiium, potassium, sodium) and even some metals/ alloys which undergo slow oxidation or are rendered passive in bulk form but which, in the finely divided state, inflame immediately when exposed to oxygen (e.g. aluminium, magnesium, zirconium). 

The effects on oxidation resistance of copper as a result of adding varying amounts of one or more of aluminium, beryllium, chromium, manganese, silicon, zirconium are described in a number of papers Other authors have investigated the oxidation of copper-zincand copper-nickel alloys , the oxidation of copper and copper-gold alloys in carbon dioxide at 1 000°C and the internal oxidation of various alloys ". ... 

There is a noticeable difference between the appearance of the aluminium-containing magnesium-rich alloys on the one hand and the zinc/zirconium-containing magnesium alloys on the other. In the former the microscopic pits in the surface which has been exposed to the weather tend to be narrow and relatively deep, while in the latter they are wider and tend to overlap, leading to a slightly wavy appearance. 

Individually indexed alloys or intermetallic compounds are Aluminium amalgam, 0051 Aluminium-copper-zinc alloy, 0050 Aluminium-lanthanum-nickel alloy, 0080 Aluminium-lithium alloy, 0052 Aluminium-magnesium alloy, 0053 Aluminium-nickel alloys, 0055 Aluminium-titanium alloys, 0056 Copper-zinc alloys, 4268 Ferromanganese, 4389 Ferrotitanium, 4391 Lanthanum-nickel alloy, 4678 Lead-tin alloys, 4883 Lead-zirconium alloys, 4884 Lithium-magnesium alloy, 4681 Lithium-tin alloys, 4682 Plutonium bismuthide, 0231 Potassium antimonide, 4673 Potassium-sodium alloy, 4646 Silicon-zirconium alloys, 4910... 

Alloys of reactive metals are often more pyrophoric than the parent metals. Examples are alloys of titanium with zirconium thorium with copper, silver or gold uranium with tin, lead or gold magnesium with aluminium hafnium with iron [1], Cerium amalgams and thorium-silver alloys are spontaneously flammable when dry [2], Individually indexed alloys are ... 

Yttrium also finds application in titanium alloys where at concentrations of the order of 200 ppm it improves the ductility and ease of fabrication of vacuum arc-melted alloys. It is also used to improve the strength of magnesium castings and when used in combination with zirconium, as little as 100 ppm yttrium increases the conductivity of aluminium transmission lines by as much as 50%. 

Many kinds of artificial hip joints are available commercially, but they all consist of the same parts, i.e. a metal stem or shaft, usually made of a titanium alloy and a ceramic head of aluminium or zirconium oxide. The production of the ceramic head starts with a powder and ends with the sintering process. The heat treatment will cause the head to shrink. After production, the head is thoroughly tested, e.g. on its spherical shape and surface roughness. 

In the case of so-called active soldering an active solder is used a metallic solder containing interface active additives which make certain that the molten solder wets the ceramics. An example of such a solder is a silver / copper alloy with a titanium or titanium / indium additive which can be used when soldering zirconium (IV) oxide to certain steels, aluminium oxide to nickel / cobalt or iron / nickel alloys and aluminium oxide to a iron / nickel / cobalt alloy. 

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