Experimental study on viscosity and phase segregation of Al-Si powders in microsemisolid powder forming

Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 0110031-0110037

  Wu, Yufeng ^a   Kim, Gap Yong ^a   Anderson, Iver E ^b   Lograsso, Thomas A ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back extrusion; Microforming; Phase segregation; Powder processing; Semisolid forming; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; PHASE SEPARATION; POWDERS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; SILICON COMPOUNDS; VISCOSITY;

BACK EXTRUSIONS; MICRO FORMING; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; POWDER PROCESSING; SEMI-SOLID FORMING;

EXTRUSION;

EID: 77955329990     PISSN: 10871357     EISSN: 15288935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4000636     Document Type: Article

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