The steep ascent of knowledge on light alloys metallurgy was matched by a striking growth of CSM on both long fiber and particulate reinforced metal matrix composites.
This makes CSM metallurgists involved in advanced development projects whose success is strictly related to the solution of technological and metallurgical key-points like those connected to the microstructure of superplasticised titanium and aluminium alloys, which must guarantee low brittleness levels in the matrix/matrix and matrix/fiber or particulate interfaces.
Our metallurgists have the capability to govern all the phases of the fabrication process of this family of materials having gained a unique experience on preparing not-oxydated surfaces or drawing the right furnace cycles able to maximise adhesion among incoherent phases.
These relevant expertises are the result of a decade of research focused on multy-stacked sandwiches structures, either close-packed through Hot Isostatic Pressing or obtained by fibers impregnation through plasma-sprayed powders, or, else, on titanium powders - silicon carbide long fiber components attained through superplastic forging and aluminium powders reiforced by means of titanium carbides and oxides.
It is in this technological field, which conjugates highly refined metallurgical approaches for the materials design with the philosophy of an handicraft production, that the metallurgists are in charge of the full product cycle from the concept idea up to the prototype testing.