Hot tearing during the start-up phase of DC cast extrusion billets

Materials Science Forum

Volumn 396-402, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-64

  Drezet, Jean Marie ^a   M'Hamdi, Mohammed ^a   Benum, Steinar ^a   Mortensen, Dag ^a   Fjær, Hallvard ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; DC casting; Deformation; Hot tearing

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; EXTRUSION; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

HOT TEARING;

BILLETS (METAL BARS);

EID: 0036430864     PISSN: 02555476     EISSN: 16629752     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.396-402.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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