Recent advances in understanding the eutectic solidification in Al-Si foundry alloys

Proceedings of the Australian Asian Pacific Conference on Aluminium Cast House Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 183-193

  Lu, Liming ^a   Dahle, Arne ^a   Cooper, Paul ^b   Couper, Mal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b London and Scand Metall Co Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c CRC Alloy Solidification Technol   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CASTINGS; ALUMINUM FOUNDRY PRACTICE; ALUMINUM METALLURGY; EUTECTICS; NUCLEATION; POROSITY; SOLIDIFICATION;

FOUNDRY ALLOYS;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 0242270986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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