Evaluation of the effect of grain refiners on the solidification characteristics of an Sr-modified ADC12 die-casting alloy by cooling curve thermal analysis

• Main Authors: Farahany, Saeed, Idris, Mohd. Hasbullah, Ourdjini, Ali, Faris, Fadi, Ghandvar, Hamidreza
• Format: Article
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55104/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10973-014-4367-1
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The influence of grain refinement - with the addition of 6 mass% Al-5Ti-B and 10 mass% Al-3Ti-B master alloys - on the temperature-based parameters of a commercial ADC12 die-casting alloy, modified with 0.04 mass% Sr, was investigated using computer-aided cooling curve thermal analysis. Results show...