Tsvetnye Metally

The articles of the issue cover topics on heavy and light non-ferrous metals, precious metals and alloys, rare metals. The journal highlights theoretical and practical issues of ores benefication, non-ferrous metals manufacturing and processing, crude ore integrated use as well as economics and manufacturing management.

The article of A. V. Putilov, V. N. Chervyakov, N. N. Degtyarenko, V. V. Pilyugin, E. E. Malikova (National Nuclear Research University "MEPhI") reports on requirements for the personnel professional training to provide effectiveness of research and development in the area of fundamental nanostructures. It describes some aspects of elaboration the software-based multimedia tutorials, which correspond to the Sharable Content Object Reference Model 2004 3-rd Edition (SCORM) standard, using module approach and an“educational tracks” principle. 

G. A. Barysheva and I. V. Babenko focuse their paper on review of the current state of the Russian metallurgical industry. It is noted that the current statistics in connection with the transition from the All-Union Classifier of Economy Branches to the All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities can't completely use data of interbranch balances. Authors believe that a way out could be to develop an adequate model for analysis of a productivity factor.

State of the economy of the Commonwealth countries at the end of 2010 according to the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the statistical organizations of the Commonwealth countries, Bulletin of Foreign Commercial Information materials and industry publications has been analyzed in the paper of V. S. Kozyrev and A. V. Nechaev.

Over the past decade the Gulidov Krasnoyarsk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant JSC (Krastsvetmet JSC) has launched and developed manufacturing of a wide range of products based on precious metals, such as: rhodium electrolytes, a number of different salts of these metals, catalyst gauzes for ammonia decomposition for nitric acid plants, crucibles and labware, thermocouple transducers from platinum and its alloys, as well as jewelry. The next stage of the Krastsvetmet JSC development has been the production of glass-melting apparatus and glass feeders from platinum and its alloys used in fiberglass production. V. A. Dmitriev and P. A. Khorikov inform about this line of activity in their paper.

The article “Technological principles of hot isostatic pressing for the single crystalline blades of gas turbine engines from Ni-base superalloys” describes an engineered by the specialists of the “Kompozit” OJSC a two-stage mode for single crystalline blades from the GS32 Ni-base superalloy on the base of hot isostatic pressing principles, which ensures absence of recrystallizing. At the same time there is a significant reduction in shrinkage porosity and increase in heat-resistant properties of the complex, including creep and fatigue resistance. Applying of this approach lead to an increase in longevity of single crystalline samples made of the GS32 alloy.

Publication of the article written by E. V. Mayorova coincides with the 50^th anniversary of Norilsk Industrial Institute, which was celebrated in December.

As usual, the December issue contains an annual content of "Non-ferrous metals" journal for 2011.

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