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Alloy design for aircraft engines

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Metallic materials are fundamental to advanced aircraft engines. While perceived as mature, emerging computational, experimental and processing innovations are expanding the scope for discovery and implementation of new metallic materials for future generations of advanced propulsion systems.

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Figure 1: Growth and microstructure of nickel-based single crystals.
Figure 2: New Co-based single-crystal alloys.
Figure 3: Tomographic datasets and their corresponding use in modelling.
Figure 4: Strain maps measured during in situ straining in a scanning electron microscope.
Figure 5: Structure and defects in additively manufactured titanium.

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The author gratefully acknowledges the support of grants from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-12-1-0039 and N00014-14-1-0618), the National Science Foundation (DMR 1534264), AFOSR/AFRL (FA9550-12-0445) and the students, postdoctoral researchers and collaborators associated with these grants.

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