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Hot isostatic pressing

Author: Emmanuel RIGAL

Publication date: December 10, 2017, Review date: October 23, 2020

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1. Hot isostatic compression technology

Invention and early development

Interest in very high gas pressures dates back to the 1940s, with the manufacture of synthetic diamonds from graphite. However, the invention of hot isostatic pressing dates back to 1955, when researchers at the Battelle Institute in the USA developed a plant capable of processing nuclear fuel elements at temperatures of up to 830°C and 69 MPa of neutral gas pressure. . The aim was to diffusion weld the cladding to the fuel, in particular to improve thermal contact between the two.

The markets that justified developments between 1960 and the 1980s concerned the manufacture of beryllium products...

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