An alloy for musical instruments should have high enough strength, hardness, specific elastic properties and low damping capacity. The high tin bronze alloys with composition 20-22 wt.% Sn has good acoustical properties, which is capable of producing long-lasting slowly damping vibrations but there is brittle materials. Cracks and fracture may appear on these materials. The study on mechanical ...

A new type of low melting point Al-Si-Cu (Ni) filler metal for brazed 6063 aluminum alloy was designed, and the microstructure properties were systematically studied. The results show that when content Cu in increased from 10 wt.% to 20 wt.%, liquidus temperature decreased 587.8 °C 533.4 °C. Its microstructures mainly composed α-Al phase, a primary Si θ(Al2Cu) phase. After proper amount Ni adde...

Ultrafine-grained Cu/Al/Ag composites were processed by an accumulative roll bonding (ARB) technique from pure copper and aluminum sheets a silver powder. The Al content was fixed to 11 wt.% while the concentration 1, 2, or 3 in wt.%. ARB-processed samples heat treated at different temperatures between 750 1050 °C for 60 min then quenched room temperature (RT) producing Cu–Al–Ag alloys. effect ...

Age-hardening characteristics in a dental low-gold alloy composed of 40.0 wt% Au-35.0 wt% Ag-7.9 wt% Pd-7.0 wt% Cu-5.0 wt% In-3.5 wt% Zn-1.5 wt% Sn, were investigated by means of the hardness test, XRD study, SEM observations and EPMA. The following results were obtained. The age-hardening was characterized by a precipitation of Cu-rich alpha2 phase in the a phase. The softening that occurred f...

the micro-segregation in binary al-cu alloys containing 2.2, 3.7, and 4.8 wt.% copper was investigated by differential thermal analysis (dta) and numerical modeling. for this purpose, the alloys were melted using a dta furnace with the capability of quenching samples during solidification. the melted samples were cooled at 0.008 and 0.083 k/s and subsequently quenched from predetermined tempera...

Shape memory polymer (SMP) nanocomposites with a fast electro-actuation speed were prepared by dispersing Cu-decorated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) (Cu-CNTs, 1 wt %, 2 wt %, and 3 wt %) in a polylactic acid (PLA)/epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) blend matrix. The shape memory effect (SME) induced by an electrical current was investigated by a fold-deploy "U"-shape bending test. In addition, the Cu-CNT d...

Abstract Now a days, the Zn-Al-Cu alloy-based composites have great impact on modern trends for bearing applications because of its reliable mechanical performance. In this paper characteristics as cast hybrid metal matrix been investigated, well influence reinforcements Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Titanium Diboride (TiB 2 ) composite. The ultrasonic assisted stir casting technique has adopted fa...