Effects of Al - 5Ti - 1B master alloy on the microstructural evaluation of a highly alloyed aluminum alloy produced by SIMA process

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1252, Issue , 2010, Pages 1060-1072

  Alipour, M ^a   Emamy, M ^a   Azarbarmas, M ^a   Karamouz, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

grain size; microstructure; reheating; semi solid processing; shape factor; strain induced melt activated (SIMA) process

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956112112     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3457501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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