Patent ID: 7655182

Claim:
A method for fabricating a metallic article made of metallic constituent elements, comprising the steps of obtaining a consolidated metallic article which was prepared by the steps of furnishing a mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds of the metallic constituent elements, and chemically reducing the mixture of nonmetallic precursor compounds to produce the initial metallic alloy material, without melting the initial metallic alloy material, the initial metallic alloy material having more titanium than any other element, and consolidating the initial metallic alloy material to produce a consolidated metallic alloy article, without melting the initial metallic alloy material and without melting the consolidated metallic alloy article, wherein the metallic article is selected from the group consisting of a nickel-base metallic article, a cobalt-base metallic article, a titanium-base metallic article, an aluminum-base metallic article, and a magnesium-base metallic article.