4
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: OSI. Assessment of Progress inilateral Agreement Project on Electrometallurgy
initial assessment of US-USSR cooperationfield of electrometallurgy, prepared in Octobervalid. The US-USSR exchange in this area iscautiously. To date nothing of significancegained or lost by either side. The trend ofis satisfactory from the US view, but itearly to estimate what the ultimate gains andbe. Although no significant technologicalbelieved to have been lost through theoodreat deal of informationtransferred outside this official channel via the
:contacts of Soviet individuals with various US companies.
sides have great interest in highsteels. As stated in4 comment
on this project, one of the most intriguing Soviet claims has been of their ability toeldable one percent nitrogen stainless steel with resistance to corrosion, high toughness and strength levelssi. However, the only sample obtained by the US had less than one half percent of nitrogen, and the Soviets recently have been inquiring about how best to heat treat and weld this material. There is much interest in finding out the true status of this alloy.
dat2: JOM|ji
E
KStTIVE Ifj If! LIcVwcrSGURCES AND MtMQiS irtvoivto
SUBJECT: OSI Assessment of Progress inilateral Agreement Project on Electrometallurgy
areas of considerable interest to the USthis exchange include:
The quality and efficiency of processing
of Soviet plasma arc renelting guns compared toand/or Japanese guns.
melting of superalloys, Timetals and electronic materials.
effect on hardware development ofSoviet commitment in welding RfiD and education.
composition of ESR fluxes for titanium.
of plasma welding and meltingIMET relative to IES.
is also considerable interest in thearea of cooperation in the field of joining materialssolid state. Mainly through the efforts of Professor
N.F. Kazakov, head of the Diffusion Bonding Laboratory of the Moscow Technical Institute of the Meat and Dairy Industry, the USSR is the world leader in diffusion bonding technology and the only country to use this process in mass production. Inrofessor Kazakov announced that his proposal for creationesearch center for diffusion working of metals had been approved. We would be interested in details of the processes and materials combinations in production and in RfiD, their properties, advantages, applications and costs. How are they evaluated and controlled for quality assurance? Who besides Kazakov is doing work in this area and how good is it?
their part, the Soviets have shown greatnitrogen solubility in metals, US ceramic weldingin welding pipe for pipelines, especially in the Arctic.
COlIFirEHTTAT
Original document.
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: