Study of age hardening behavior of Al-4.5 wt%Cu/zircon sand composite in different quenching media - A comparative study

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3900-3903

  Sharma, Ashutosh ^a,b   Das, Sanjeev ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS CAST ALLOY; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX SHAPES; CRACKING PROBLEM; CU ALLOY; CU BASED ALLOY; HARDENING BEHAVIOR; MATRIX; OIL QUENCHING; PARTICLE-MATRIX INTERFACE; QUENCHING MEDIA; QUENCHING MEDIUM; SALT BRINES; SOLUTION HEAT TREATMENT; STIR CASTING; THIN SECTION; ZIRCON SAND;

AGE HARDENING; ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; COPPER ALLOYS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

QUENCHING;

EID: 67349129015     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.03.022     Document Type: Article

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