Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings

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Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings. / Wang, Zhi; Huang, Yuanding; Srinivasan, Amirthalingam et al.
In: Materials and Design, Vol. 47, 05.2013, p. 90-100.

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Wang, Z, Huang, Y, Srinivasan, A, Liu, Z, Beckmann, F, Kainer, KU & Hort, N 2013, 'Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings', Materials and Design, vol. 47, pp. 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.044

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Wang, Z., Huang, Y., Srinivasan, A., Liu, Z., Beckmann, F., Kainer, K. U., & Hort, N. (2013). Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings. Materials and Design, 47, 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.044

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Wang Z, Huang Y, Srinivasan A, Liu Z, Beckmann F, Kainer KU et al. Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings. Materials and Design. 2013 May;47:90-100. doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.044

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title = "Hot tearing susceptibility of binary Mg-Y alloy castings",
abstract = "The influence of Y content on the hot tearing susceptibility (HTS) of binary Mg-Y alloys has been predicted using thermodynamic calculations based on Clyne and Davies model. The calculated results are compared with experimental results determined using a constrained rod casting (CRC) apparatus with a load cell and data acquisition system. Both thermodynamic calculations and experimental measurements indicate that the hot tearing susceptibility as a function of Y content follows the {"} λ{"} shape. The experimental results show that HTS first increases with increase in Y content, reaches the maximum at about 0.9. wt.%Y and then decreases with further increase the Y content. The maximum susceptibility observed in Mg-0.9. wt.%Y alloy is attributed to its coarsened columnar microstructure, large solidification range and small amount of eutectic at the time of hot tearing. The initiation of hot cracks is monitored during CRC experiments. It corresponds to a drop in load increment on the force curves. The critical solid fractions at which the hot cracks are initiated are in the range from 0.9 to 0.99. It is also found that it decreases with increasing the content of Y. The hot cracks propagate along the dendritic or grain boundaries through the interdendritic separation or tearing of interconnected dendrites. Some of the formed cracks are possible to be healed by the subsequent refilling of the remained liquids.",
keywords = "Grain structure, Hot tearing, Mg alloy, Thermodynamic, X-ray micro-tomography, Engineering",
author = "Zhi Wang and Yuanding Huang and Amirthalingam Srinivasan and Zheng Liu and Felix Beckmann and Kainer, {Karl Ulrich} and Norbert Hort",
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doi = "10.1016/j.matdes.2012.12.044",
language = "English",
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journal = "Materials and Design",
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publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

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AU - Srinivasan, Amirthalingam

AU - Liu, Zheng

AU - Beckmann, Felix

AU - Kainer, Karl Ulrich

AU - Hort, Norbert

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