Aluminum is commonly used as fuel additive for propellants, incendiaries, and explosives. The main limitation to its use lies in comparatively slow ignition and oxidation/combustion kinetics. Performance can be significantly improved if pure aluminum is substituted by thermodynamically less stable alloys. In this context, mechanical alloys in the aluminum-rich section of the Al-Ti binary system...

Low cycle isothermal mechanical fatigue testing of a eutectic alloy 63Sn/37Pb was carried out in a systematic manner over a wide range of frequencies (10–1 Hz) and temperatures (240 to 150°C) with the total strain set at different values (1–50%). The low cycle fatigue behavior of the eutectic solder was found to be strongly dependent on test temperature and frequency. If the Coffin–Manson model...