The Interdisciplinary Research Center in Materials for High Performanc
e Applications has research programs in the areas of TiAl-based alloys
, the development of beta titanium alloys, and the fatigue of titanium
-based alloys and composites. These programs cover melting, atomizatio
n, spray-forming, casting, thermomechanical processing, joining, alloy
development, and property assessment; in all cases, large experimenta
l programs are backed up with modeling.