STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATIONS AND MICROSTRUCTURAL DESIGN

Microstructures play an important role in alloy design. It is possible to control the properties of engineering structural materials by cont rolling their internal microstructures. It is now an accepted fact tha t the properties of metals and alloys can be tailored based on the kno wledge of structure-property correlations. These studies are gaining i mportance in the design of alloys and in life prediction applications. The best combination of properties of alloys can be tailored during a lloy design, based on economics, experience, knowledge and serendipity . Four different commercially available alloy systems used in nuclear industry are studied in this paper.