Light Metals and their Alloys I - Technology, Microstructure and Properties

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Researchers in materials engineering and metallurgy at the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, present results of their recent research into light metal alloys, one of the department's strongest research areas. Considering in turn aluminum, magnesium, and titanium, they discuss such topics as the microstructure and mechanical properties of aluminum processed by multi-axial compression, mechanical properties of aluminum matrix composites reinforced with glassy carbon particles, microstructure and properties of sand casting magnesium alloys for elevated temperature applications, characteristics of eutectic precipitations in selected magnesium cast alloys, and assessing the quality of titanium alloys melted in an induction furnace with a ceramic crucible.