Intermetallic Research in the UK

The brief for this paper is to outline the intermetallics work in the UK, which is not covered in the presentations from Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College at this meeting. The total research effort in the UK into intermetallics is not large and in this brief review an attempt is made to summarise other University-based work on defects in intermetallics, before describing some of the more industrially-based work. The industrially-supported work is aimed at producing alloys based on intermetallics and is centred on the new plasma melting facility, processing and testing facilities at the IRC. Finally the direction of future UK research into alloys based on intermetallics is briefly discussed.