Grain refinement of alloys by inoculation of melts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1804, 2003, Pages 479-495

  Greer, A L ^a   Perepezko, J H ^b   Franks, F ^c   Cantor, B ^d   Cahn, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c BioUpdate Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Grain refinement; Inoculation; Metallic glass; Nucleation; Solidification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141879065     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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