Effects of mechanical stirring and vibration on the microstructure of hypereutectic Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloy billets

Materials Transactions

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 960-966

  Takagi, Hidetoshi ^a,b   Uetani, Yasuhiro ^c   Dohi, Masayoshi ^b   Yamashita, Tomokazu ^b   Matsuda, Kenji ^a   Ikeno, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Toyama Alloy Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypereutectic aluminum silicon copper magnesium alloy; Mechanical stirring; Non dendritic structure; Primary silicon particle; Semi continuous casting; Semi solid forming; Thixoforming; Vibration

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL STIRRING; NON-DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; PRIMARY SILICON PARTICLES; SEMI-CONTINUOUS CASTING; SEMI-SOLID FORMING; THIXOFORMING;

CONTINUOUS CASTING; CRACKS; EUTECTICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SILICON; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 34250882634     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.48.960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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