Grain refinement of Mg-10Gd alloy by Al additions

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2790-2797

  Dai, Jichun ^a,b   Easton, Mark ^b   Zhu, Suming ^b   Wu, Guohua ^a,c   Ding, Wenjiang ^a,c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION OF AL; AL CONTENT; ALLOY GRAINS; GRAIN BOUNDARY MOTIONS; GRAIN COARSENING; GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION; NUCLEANT PARTICLES; ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIP; SOLUTION TREATMENTS;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; GADOLINIUM; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ZIRCONIUM;

GADOLINIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84868552684     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.313     Document Type: Article

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