nimonic

Typical materials for turbines include inconel and Nimonic.

One of the earliest of these was Nimonic, used in the British Whittle engines.

Recovery of creep properties of the nickel-base super alloy Nimonic 105 R.B.

Eventually an alloy that matched Nimonic 80's high-temperature properties was found in KhN 80T, but it was not creep-resistant.

Nimonic is a registered trademark of Special Metals Corporation that refers to a family of nickel-based high-temperature low creep superalloys.

Trademarks include Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic, and Udimet.

The tip-jet combustion chambers were made from Nimonic 80 with liners made from Nimonic 75.

The turbine blades were also forged from Nimonic 80A and were, at the time, the largest Nimonic forging ever made.

Henry Wiggin & Co of Hereford developed the metal alloys necessary for other Midlands' (and beyond) automotive and aerospace companies - Inconel, Incoloy and Nimonic.

Producing metric drawings and analyzing the materials used in the Derwent V went fairly quickly, but finding a substitute for the high-temperature, creep-resistant Nimonic 80 steel alloy was a more difficult challenge.

It is also widely used in many other alloys, such as nickel brasses and bronzes, and alloys with copper, chromium, aluminium, lead, cobalt, silver, and gold (Inconel, Incoloy, Monel, Nimonic).

Due to its ability to withstand very high temperatures, Nimonic is ideal for use in aircraft parts and gas turbine components such as turbine blades and exhaust nozzles on jet engines, for instance, where the pressure and heat are extreme.

The engine, which was re-stressed for supersonic flight at sea level, and over Mach 2.0 at altitude, and featured much use of high-temperature alloys such as titanium and Nimonic, was a cutting edge derivative of the Olympus Mk 301 with a Solar-type afterburner.

Nimonic 80a was used for the turbine blades on the Rolls-Royce Nene and de Havilland Ghost, Nimonic 90 on the Bristol Proteus, and Nimonic 105 on the Rolls-Royce Spey aviation gas turbines.