Microstructure and rheology of an A356 alloy in the semi-solid state, conditioned by a low pouring temperature technique

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Semi-Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites, S2P 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 463-471

  Vieira, Estéfano Aparecido ^a   De Oliveira Jr , Braulio Alcir ^a   Ferrante, Maurizio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Microstructure; Rheology; Spheroidisation; Thixoforming

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MELTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; RAW MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY;

RE-MELTING; SEMI-SOLID; SPHEROIDISATION; THIXOFORMING;

ALLOYING ELEMENTS;

EID: 27944499895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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