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Titanium: A Technical Guide

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I did my doctoral thesis on reinforcement of Ti alloys with titanium boride. Anything by Donachie on the subject of titanium is a must have for a metallurgist working with Ti or Ti alloys. For every field, there is "the" book, and this is it for the topic of titanium metallurgy. There are a few other ASM publications on the topic and they are all worth having if you work in this field.

Inside, you will find everything from the formation of alpha laths to martensitic transistions, phase diagrams, relevant alloys and mechanical properties of said alloys, more than you ever wanted to know about Ti-6Al-4V, historical production data, common applications, and some unique phases or unexplained phenomena. I was hoping to make something out of the mess that has been made over the beta_1, beta_2, beta_prime, beta_double prime naming scheme and wasn't quite able to make it out - sometimes they refer to the same thing and sometimes they appear to be different. I used this book to make a partial translation table for that in my thesis.

The introductory chapters are an excellent reference for an undergraduate materials science class on the topic of non-ferrous metallurgy.

I suggest complimenting this text with Titanium and Titanium Alloys (Source Book), another Donachie publication. These books are out of print but if you can find them, nab them immediately. These books are a direct connection to the Ti metallurgy hey-days from 1950-1980. They should be on display in a museum. During that period, Ti metallurgy was a rigorous exercise in completing monstrous recipe matrices with countless forgings, castings, and cooling rate studies. The main conclusions of that work are summarized in these publications, so they are the core of fundamental titanium research. Perhaps some of the newer ASM handbooks on non-ferrous alloys capture this knowledge, but these books are really the best.