Grain refinement of LM6 Al-Si alloy sand castings to enhance mechanical properties

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 162-163, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 435-441

  Pio, Lim Ying ^a   Sulaiman, Shamsuddin ^a   Hamouda, Abdel Majid ^a   Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan Megat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Grain refinement; Hardness; Sand casting; Solidification rate; Ultimate tensile strength

Indexed keywords

CASTING; COMPOSITION; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; SAND; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON ALLOYS; SOLIDIFICATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COOLING; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OPTIMIZATION; REFINING; SILICON; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

GRAIN REFINEMENT; SAND CASTING; SOLIDIFICATION RATES; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM;

AL-TI-B MASTER ALLOYS; CASTING INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COARSE GRAIN SIZE; MACROSTRUCTURES; SAND CASTINGS; SOLIDIFICATION RATE; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 17844376791     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2005.02.217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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