Observation of crack initiation during hot tearing

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 175-182

  Davidson, Cameron ^a,b   Viano, David ^a   Lu, Liming ^a   Stjohn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aluminum copper alloys; Casting; Hot tearing

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COPPER ALLOYS; METAL CASTINGS; SOLIDIFICATION; STRAIN;

HOT TEARING; MUSHY MATERIALS;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 32544456914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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