Quality assessment of artificially aged A357 aluminum alloy cast ingots by introducing approximate expressions of the quality index QD

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science

Volumn 35 A, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3079-3089

  Alexopoulos, N D ^a   Pantelakis, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; ALUMINUM CASTINGS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HARDNESS; HEAT TREATMENT; IMPACT RESISTANCE; INGOTS; QUALITY CONTROL; TENSILE STRENGTH; YIELD STRESS;

ARTIFICIAL AGING HEAT TREATMENT; CAST INGOTS; CHARPY IMPACT ENERGY VALUES; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY INDEX; TENSILE FLOW;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 8644245999     PISSN: 10735623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11661-004-0053-4     Document Type: Article

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