A systematic study of the grain refinement of magnesium by zirconium

Magnesium Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 425-430

  Sana, Partha ^a   Lolies, Katie ^a   Viswanathan, Srinath ^a   Batson, Robert G ^b   Gokhale, Arun M ^c  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

DOE; Grain refinement; Magnesium; Zirconium

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; DOE; GRAIN REFINER; PERITECTIC REACTION; POURING TEMPERATURES; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE ANALYSIS; SETTLING TIME; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; ZIRCONIUM ADDITION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM CASTINGS; MOLDS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PERMANENT MOLD CASTING; REFINING; ZIRCONIUM;

GRAIN REFINEMENT;

EID: 77952483385     PISSN: 15454150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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