Metallurgical structure of A356 aluminum alloy solidified under mechanical vibration: An investigation of alternative semi-solid casting routes

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3925-3930

  Limmaneevichitr, Chaowalit ^a   Pongananpanya, Songwid ^a   Kajornchaiyakul, Julathep ^b  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL METAL AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-356 ALUMINUM ALLOY; AS CAST ALLOY; AS-CAST; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; LIQUID ALLOY; MACROSTRUCTURE; MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS; METALLURGICAL STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; POURING TEMPERATURES; PRIMARY ALUMINUM; QUALITY INDICES; RHEO-CASTING; SEMI SOLID CASTING; SEMI-SOLID; SOLID FRACTION; SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CASTING; CRYSTALLIZATION; METALLURGY; SOLIDIFICATION; VIBRATION CONTROL; VIBRATORS;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 67349244314     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.01.036     Document Type: Article

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