Author:Curle, Ulyate ADate:Jul 2017The issue regarding globular grain shape and size has been a topic for semi-solid processing since the discovery of the technique. Semi-solid rheo-processing takes advantage of cooling a liquid metal alloy to the solid + liquid phase field, ...Read more
Author:Chauke, Levy; Curle, Ulyate A; Govender, Gonasagren SDate:Oct 2017Traditionally aluminium casting alloy 513 is not heat treated after permanent mould casting. Al-Mg alloys are generally not heat treatable but the higher Zn content in this alloy could render it heat treatable. It could be expected that in ...Read more