Effect of active heterogeneous nucleation particles on the grain refining efficiency in an Mg-10 wt.% Y cast alloy

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 488, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 260-264

  Qiu, D ^a   Zhang, M X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals   (Australia)

Author keywords

Casting; Grain refinement; Heterogeneous nucleation; Magnesium alloys

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PARTICLES; AS-CAST; CAST ALLOYS; GRAIN REFINING EFFICIENCY; GRAIN SIZE; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IN-SITU FORMATIONS; NUCLEATION PARTICLES; NUMBER DENSITY; PURE AL;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; CERIUM ALLOYS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM CASTINGS; NUCLEATION; REFINING;

GRAIN REFINEMENT;

EID: 70449532145     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2009.08.100     Document Type: Article

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