Surface Modification Processes of Aluminum Alloys.

Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys Casting Problems

Aluminum castings have played an integral role in the growth of the aluminum industry since its inception in the late 19th century. The first commercial aluminum products were castings, such as cooking utensils and decorative parts, which exploited the novelty and utility of the new metal. Those early applications rapidly expanded to address the requirements of a wide range of engineering speci...

Microwave Sintering of Aluminum Alloys

Until 2000 almost all research in the microwave sintering area was confined to non-metallic materials. However, after the first report by Penn State in 1999 on full sintering of steel powders in microwave, now in the last few years there has been increasing interest in applying microwave energy for processing of variety of metallic materials. The present study is an extension of this work and r...

Surface Modification by Friction Based Processes

Effects on Structural Aluminum Alloys

HEDRICK, H. G. (General Dynamics/Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Tex.), C. E. MILLER, J. E. HALKIAS, AND J. F. HILDEBRAND. Selection of a microbiological corrosion system for studying effects on structural aluminum alloys. Appl. Microbiol. 12:197200. 1964.Two laboratory methods, a metal-strip test and a tank test, were evaluated as microbiological corrosion systems for producing corroded test specimens...

PREDICTION OF THE ALUMINUM SILICON MODIFICATION LEVEL IN THE AlSiCu ALLOYS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

In this paper, two feed forward neural network models have been presented to predict the Silicon Modification Level (SiML) of W319 aluminum alloys using the Thermal Analysis (T.A) parameters as inputs. The developed neural networks are a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) network and a Radial Basis Function (RBF) network. The neural network models were found to predict the SiML accurately (R=0.99). Th...