The Coupling of Macrosegregation with Grain Nucleation, Growth and Motion in DC Cast Aluminum Alloy Ingots

Essential Readings in Light Metals

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 848-853

  Založnik, Miha ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Combeau, Hervé ^a   Bedel, Marie ^a,b   Jarry, Philippe ^b   Waz, Emmanuel ^b  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LAMOUR   (France)

^b Alcan CRV   (France)

Author keywords

Aluminum alloys; Direct chill casting; Macrosegregation; Microstructure; Solidification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886969983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118647783.ch106     Document Type: Chapter

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