Beryllium oxide. Los Alamos technical series, metallurgy, Volume 10. Chapter 3
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:432666
The first production job undertaken by the Metallurgy Groups at Los Alamos was that of the specially-shaped high-density beryllium oxide bricks needed for the Water Boiler. Hot-pressing of BeO powder was found to be the most satisfactory method of obtaining intricately-shaped bricks of suitable density. This was accomplished by charging the powder into a graphite die, or mold, of suitable shape fitted with a punch, or plunger, of graphite. The die and contents were heated to about 1700 deg C by means of an induction coil connected to a high-frequency converter. During the heating period a pressure of 1000 psi was applied to the plunger, thus consolidating the semiplastic BeO powder into a dense coherent mass of the shape of the die.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 432666
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A--316273/2/XAB; LA--1236-VOL-10; CNN: Contract W-7405-ENG-36
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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