Nowadays, the technology intends to use materials such as magnesium alloys due to their high strength to weight ratio in engine components. As usual, engine cylinder heads and blocks has made of various types of cast irons and aluminum alloys. However, magnesium alloys has physical and mechanical properties near to aluminum alloys and reduce the weight up to 40 percents. In this article, a new ...

Nowadays, the technology intends to use materials such as magnesium alloys due to their high strength to weight ratio in engine components. As usual, engine cylinder heads and blocks has made of various types of cast irons and aluminum alloys. However, magnesium alloys has physical and mechanical properties near to aluminum alloys and reduce the weight up to 40 percents. In this article, a new ...

A new meteorite find, named Khatyrka, was recovered from eastern Siberia as a result of a search for naturally occurring quasicrystals. The meteorite occurs as clastic grains within postglacial clay-rich layers along the banks of a small stream in the Koryak Mountains, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of far eastern Russia. Some of the grains are clearly chondritic and contain Type IA porphyritic oliv...

A series of Al-4Ti master alloys with various TiAl₃ particles were prepared via pouring the pure aluminum added with K₂TiF₆ or sponge titanium into three different molds made of graphite, copper, and sand. The microstructure and morphology of TiAl₃ particles were characterized and analyzed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The microstructure of TiA...

Aluminum is commonly used as fuel additive for propellants, incendiaries, and explosives. The main limitation to its use lies in comparatively slow ignition and oxidation/combustion kinetics. Performance can be significantly improved if pure aluminum is substituted by thermodynamically less stable alloys. In this context, mechanical alloys in the aluminum-rich section of the Al-Ti binary system...

Three different aluminum–iron alloys were produced by electron-beam deposition with the iron content in the range 1.15–1.71 at.%. These alloys did not contain any identifiable iron-bearing particles, and exhibited full density with high-angle grain boundaries in the micrometer range, and a sub-grain size typically smaller than 100 nm. The tensile deformation characteristics of the alloys were e...

Aluminum and aluminum alloys can be protected against corrosion by various methods of surface modification (e.g., metal finishing, anodizing, chromate conversion coatings, metallic cladding with Alclad, corrosion protection compounds, and solution phase inhibitors). The desire to deploy environmentally compliant multi-functional coatings has created the need for new concepts that can protect Al...

In present global scenario, aluminum alloys are coining the attention of many innovators as competing structural materials for automotive and space applications. Comparing to other challenging alloys, especially, 7xxx series aluminum alloys have been studied seriously because of benefits such as moderate strength; better deforming characteristics and affordable cost. It is expected that substit...

Al-based alloys have a long tradition of use especially as a lightweight material for traffic systems. The limits of conventional casting have not yet been reached. One of the recent aims in the research of Al-based alloys is to realize the potential of non-traditional alloying elements such as transitions metals (TM) – e.g. Sc, Zr, Mn, Cr, etc. and their combinations. In this contribution we d...

As popular aluminum alloys, the 5xxx Al-Mg series, such as 5050 and 5052, etc., are widely used in applications such as automobile, pressure vessels, armor plate, and components for marine and cryogenic service. In this, as in all non-heat-treatable aluminum alloys, the weld metal zone is considered to be the weakest part of the joint and is the location of failure when the joint is loaded in t...