Beryllium is One of the Indispensable Materials for Nuclear Weapons

Because beryllium has a unique combination of properties, it has made a lot of use in the field of aerospace, becoming a mature space material. Frames used as structural materials for windows and doors in space shuttles, camera lens holders, and support for telescopes in deep space exploration vehicles.

As a structural material, beryllium sheet is also likely to be used as part of a Space Shuttle liquid hydrogen engine and as a cooling tube as it has good thermal conductivity and hydrogen impermeability in addition to its mechanical properties. Beryllium is highly reflective of infrared light and is an optical lens material that can also be used in the infrared (IR) wavelength band.

Beryllium has light weight, high strength, good rigidity, high micro-yield strength (allowable stress when producing a 1 micro-inch variation) and plays a very important role in the dimensional stability of the meter. Because the instrument itself is a slight center of gravity offset, will lead to a huge flight deviation. Metallic beryllium also has special nuclear properties, especially in the case of light weight, small size, and high neutron flux, both as a neutron reflector and as a neutron moderator.

In recent ten years, the use of beryllium aluminum has been very wide, its proportion, strength, stiffness and thermal conductivity between beryllium and aluminum, due to cost advantages and processing technology advances, not only replaced some uses of pure beryllium, but also opened up a wide range of civilian areas. Such as high-performance racing brake parts, and the use of beryllium aluminum extrusion processing of computer hard disk drive 1 actuator parts. Metallic beryllium is a very special and little-known product.

With the continuous progress of beryllium smelting and processing technology and its application range, the special significance and economic attraction of metal beryllium will become increasingly obvious.

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