Sensitivity of different Al-Si alloys to centrifugal casting effect

Materials and Design

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2867-2877

  Chirita, G ^a   Stefanescu, I ^b   Cruz, D ^a   Soares, D ^a   Silva, F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aluminium alloys; Centrifugal casting; Eutectic volume fraction; Gravity casting; Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

AL-SI ALLOY; ALUMINIUM ALLOYS; CASTING TECHNIQUES; CENTRIFUGAL EFFECT; GRAVITY CASTING; HYPEREUTECTIC ALLOY; MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CENTRIFUGAL CASTING; CENTRIFUGATION; EUTECTICS; SILICON; SILICON ALLOYS; TITRATION;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 76949101550     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.12.045     Document Type: Article

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