Alloy composition and metal/mold heat transfer efficiency affecting inverse segregation and porosity of as-cast Al-Cu alloys

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2090-2098

  Boeira, Alexandre P ^a   Ferreira, Ivaldo L ^b   Garcia, Amauri ^b  

^a Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica de Pelotas   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Casting (C); Non ferrous metals and alloys (A); Thermal analysis (G)

Indexed keywords

AL-CU ALLOYS; ALLOY COMPOSITIONS; AS CASTS; CASTING (C); CASTING SURFACES; HEAT TRANSFER EFFICIENCIES; INPUT PARAMETERS; INVERSE SEGREGATIONS; LOCAL COMPOSITIONS; MACRO SEGREGATIONS; MACROSEGREGATION MODELS; METAL/MOLD HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; NON FERROUS METALS AND ALLOYS (A); NUMERICAL MODELS; POROSITY FORMATIONS; POROSITY LEVELS; SOLUTE CONTENTS; SOLUTE REDISTRIBUTIONS; THERMAL ANALYSIS (G); X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRIES;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; COPPER ALLOYS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT TRANSFER; METAL ANALYSIS; METALLURGY; MICROPOROSITY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); TERNARY SYSTEMS; THERMOANALYSIS;

CASTING;

EID: 63049111168     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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