Improvements in Electroformed Copper Alloys

Some success has been achieved in a development program directed toward improving the mechanical properties of electroformed copper-alloy structural components. Typical of such components are bundles of tubes and other heat-exchange devices that have complex shapes. Electroforming of copper alloys is an attractive means for manufacturing such a component because of the high thermal conductivity of copper and because electroforming both produces the alloy and forms the component in nearly net shape in a single process.