A literature review on methods to consider mechanical behaviour of cast aluminium alloys in finite element method (FEM) simulations of cast aluminium components has been performed. The mechanical behaviour is related to several microstructural parameters achieved during the casting process. Three different methods to consider these microstructural parameters are introduced. One method predicts ...

Aluminium is the third most frequent element in the earth's crust and occurs naturally in drinking water and other foods, particularly in fruit and vegetables. For consumers the main uptake route is food. There may be additional exposure from aluminium-containing foodcontact articles like kitchen utensils, cans, foils or tubes from which the light metal migrates into the food. Furthermore, alum...

The distribution of aluminium has been investigated using a new histochemical technique in transiliac bone biopsy specimens from 20 patients with aluminium related bone disease and 17 with other metabolic bone diseases. The method, which employs solochrome azurine at acid pH (acid solochrome azurine), showed a wider distribution of aluminium within cortical and trabecular bone than other histoc...

Aluminium metal matrix composites are widely used in engineering applications, specially automobile, aerospace, marine and mineral processing industries owing to their improved wear properties compared to conventional monolithic aluminium alloys. Presently hybrid composites plays vital role in engineering application. The researchers who developed composites, were subjected to many characterisa...

Of the 202 patients undergoing home dialysis in the Trent region, 11 developed dialysis encephalopathy, 21 suffered spontaneous fractures, and 36 who had undergone dialysis for over four years had neither of these complications. Because the incidence of complications seemed to be unevenly distributed the water supplies were analysed. Water supplied to the homes of the patients with fractures or...

Aluminium hydroxide is used as an adjuvant in vaccines. We describe the case of a patient who presented a persistent adverse local reaction to aluminium hydroxide due to hyposensitization therapy to dust mites. Multiple painful and pruriginous subcutaneous nodules were observed in both arms, along with hypertrichosis at the injection site. Histology revealed a pseudolymphomatous B cell reaction...

For last several decades aluminium and aluminium alloys are widely used in automotive industries because for their favourable properties like low density (about 2700 Kg/m 3 ), good malleability, high formability, high corrosion resistance and high electrical and thermal conductivity. High machinability and workability of aluminium alloys are prone to porosity due to gases dissolved during melti...

In this research work the effect of internal strain on electrical tree growth has been revealed in clear polyester. Strain was introduced in the specimen by the introduction of particles like aluminium oxide, polytetroflouroethylene (PTFE) and glass beads in a clear polyester resin C. Aluminium oxide particles of size 105μm, PTFE 675μm and glass beads of 1mm were tested. These materials were em...

The study of chemical composition of waters in the abandoned open pyrite mine at WieSciszowice (the Rudawy Janowickie Mts., the W Sudetes, SW Poland) has been canied out with the aim of detennining the conditions of mobi1i7..ation and solubility of aluminium. Both the ion activities and the saturation of water samples with respect to mineral phases have been calculated using the WATEQ4F compute...

This work compares the estimates of shear strengths of aluminium nitride and titanium diboride obtained (a) from the simultaneous measurements of longitudinal and lateral stress by means of manganin gauges under plane shock wave loading with (b) those calculated from the offset between hydrodynamic and shock Hugoniot of these materials. The results of this work show that whereas the estimates o...