Dendritic evolution during coarsening of Mg-Zn alloys via 4D synchrotron tomography

Acta Materialia

Volumn 123, Issue , 2017, Pages 373-382

  Guo, Enyu ^a,b   Phillion, A B ^b,c   Cai, Biao ^a,b   Shuai, Sansan ^b,d   Kazantsev, Daniil ^a,b   Jing, Tao ^d   Lee, Peter D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coarsening; Dendrite; Magnesium alloy; Semi solid; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COARSENING; COOLING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SOLIDIFICATION; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; ZINC ALLOYS;

COARSENINGS; COOLING RATES; DENDRITE; DENDRITICS; LENGTH SCALE; MICRO SEGREGATION; SEMI-SOLIDS; SOLIDIFICATION MICROSTRUCTURES; SYNCHROTRON TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

MAGNESIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84994378297     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.10.022     Document Type: Article

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