Mechanisms of grain refinement by intensive shearing of AZ91 alloy melt

Acta Materialia

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6526-6534

  Men, H ^a   Jiang, B ^a   Fan, Z ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grain refinement; Magnesium alloy; Nucleation; Oxide

Indexed keywords

ALLOY MELT; AZ91 ALLOY; COOLING CURVE; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FINISHING TEMPERATURE; GRAIN REFINING; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH MODELS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INPUT PARAMETER; INTENSIVE SHEARING; MG ALLOY; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NUCLEATION SITES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; SHAPE CASTING; SIZE AND SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; THEORETICAL MODELLING; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CONTINUOUS CASTING; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM CASTINGS; NUCLEATION; OXIDE FILMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; REFINING; SHEARING;

GRAIN REFINEMENT;

EID: 77957104745     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.08.016     Document Type: Article

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