Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a tungsten heavy alloy sheet which involves rolling a starting slab consisting essentially of tungsten heavy alloy wherein the tungsten content is from greater than 75% to 93% by weight tungsten by passing the slab one or more times through a rolling mill at a temperature of from 700.degree. C. to 900.degree. C. to reduce the height of the slab by no greater than 10% per pass to a total reduction in height of from 15% to 25%, heating the resulting slab from the first series at a temperature of 1000.degree. C. to 1200.degree. C. for a sufficient time to anneal the matrix of the slab, subjecting the resulting first time annealed slab to a second series of rolling operations by passing the first time annealed slab one or more times through a rolling mill at a temperature of 700.degree. C. to 900.degree. C.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing tungsten heavy alloy billets. The process involves forming a uniform blend of elemental powders to form a tungsten alloy having a tungsten content of equal to or less than about 91% by weight and wherein the particle size of the tungsten is no less than about 2 micrometers in diameter. This blend is uniformly packed into a container having thermal expansion similar to that of the powder. The blend is then sintered in a hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature sufficient to impart strength to the powder and to reduce oxides and remove volatile impurities from the powder without significant densification in the powder. The powder is then solid state sintered in a reducing atmosphere at a sufficient temperature to densify the powder to at least about 90% of the theoretical density but at a temperature below the liquid phase sintering temperature of the powder, to form the billet.