Aluminum alloys have been widely used in various industries, and continuous improvement
in the properties of these alloys is required to meet consumer demand for high-performance …

Casting Aluminum Alloys, Second Edition, the follow up to the fall 2007 work on the
structure, properties, thermal resistance, corrosion and fatigue of aluminum alloys in …

A novel process named Controlled Diffusion Solidification (CDS) has been developed to
circumvent problems that are typically associated with casting wrought aluminum alloy …

Scandium, and scandium combined with zirconium, improves multiple properties of
aluminum based alloys. In this work, we performed solidification and heat treatment …

Additive manufacturing of aluminum alloys is largely dominated by a near-eutectic Al-Si
compositions, which are highly weldable, but have mechanical properties that are not …

Using published experimental phase equilibria, a self-consistent thermodynamic database
of the Al-Si-Mg-Sc quaternary system in Al-rich corner was established by application of the …

Aluminum alloy 319 have been used extensively in automotive powertrain applications in
recent years to improve vehicle fuel efficiency. To further optimize the casting processes …

Abstract Analysis of solidification conditions, compositions and heat treatment parameters
and their mutual interaction on the microstructure evolution is of great importance for …

Abstract Foundry Al-Mg alloys play an important role in overall foundry industry of light
metals due to their outstanding properties, although their solidification mechanism has not …

The design of high-performance materials depends on a comprehensive understanding of
the alloy-specific relationships between solidification and properties. However, the …