Unintentional effects of Sr additions in Al-Si foundry alloys

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-66

  McDonald, Stuart ^a   Dargusch, Matthew ^a   Song, Guangling ^a   StJohn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Eutectic grain size; Modification; Porosity; Surface finish

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM CLADDING; CORROSION; CORROSION RESISTANCE; EUTECTICS; FOUNDRIES; FOUNDRY PRACTICE; LIGHT METALS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NONMETALS; PAINTING; RESEARCH; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; STRONTIUM; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ALUMINIUM-SILICON; ANNUAL MEETINGS; AS-CAST; CASTING PROPERTIES; CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; EUTECTIC GRAIN SIZE; EUTECTIC SILICON; FOUNDRY ALLOYS; GRAIN SIZES; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MODIFICATION; POROSITY; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SHAPE CASTING; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; SURFACE FINISH; SURFACE FINISHING; TRACE LEVELS;

STRONTIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 51649084309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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