Page 100 - MY STORY

presenters (I was one) went through some serious

“training” by an external media consultant teaching us to
make technical presentations to a critical, and possibly
non-expert, audience within a 10-minute window. Each

presentation was held in short time because we wanted to
present as broad a picture of our work as possible which
required many presenters during the two-day cycle.

My subject dealt with something called “Texture
Hardening of Titanium Alloy for Pressure Vessel

Applications.”

Now I’m not going to get into the specifics of the
technology of texture hardening, but I had to cover some
seriously complex concepts and technology including:

1. Titanium alloy physical metallurgy and properties of
the hexagonal-close-packed (HCP) crystal structure

2. Crystallographic orientation of the HCP in hot rolled
high strength titanium alloy sheet metal
3. Methods and interpretation of X-ray diffraction

methodology to determine crystallographic orientation
4. Multiaxial plane-stress theory invoking Von Mises
criteria for limited plastic flow of anisotropic materials