Heat transfer and solidification behaviour of modified A357 alloy

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 182, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 152-156

  Kumar, Girish ^a   Hegde, Sathyapal ^a   Prabhu, K Narayan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Al Si alloy; Modification; Solidification; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLIDIFICATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; THERMOANALYSIS;

EUTECTIC GRAIN SIZE; EUTECTIC SOLIDIFICATION; MELT TREATMENT;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 33751111462     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2006.07.024     Document Type: Article

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