scholarly journals The effect of slow shot speed and casting pressure on the 3D microstructure of high pressure die casting AE44 magnesium alloy

Author(s):  
Chaosheng Ma ◽  
Wenbo YU ◽  
Tongtong Zhang ◽  
Zihua Zhang ◽  
Yihu Ma ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 618-619 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambavalavanar Tharumarajah ◽  
Dayalan R. Gunasegaram ◽  
Paul Koltun

In spite of die castings being amongst the highest volume items manufactured by the metalworking industry, the influence of high pressure die casting (HPDC) process parameters on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions remains largely unreported. In this article, the authors discuss the effect of some HPDC process parameters on GHG emissions using cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) for both aluminium and magnesium alloys. Although the impacts reduced with increasing yields in both cases, it was determined that the GHG impact of magnesium alloy HPDC was more sensitive to HPDC yield irrespective of the ratio of primary/secondary alloys in the melt charge. The reasons for this include a greater dependence of magnesium alloy HPDC on high-emitting primary processing and the use of the highly potent GHG SF6 for melting. For magnesium alloy HPDC, a decrease in quality assurance (QA) rejects and cycle times also reduced GHG emissions, although their influences were found to be an order lower than that of yield.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.N. Braszczyńska-Malik

Abstract Experimental Mg-Al-RE type magnesium alloys for high-pressure die-casting are presented. Alloys based on the commercial AM50 magnesium alloy with 1, 3 and 5 mass % of rare earth elements were fabricated in a foundry and cast in cold chamber die-casting machines. The obtained experimental casts have good quality surfaces and microstructure consisting of an α(Mg)-phase, Al11RE3, Al10RE2Mn7 intermetallic compound and small amount of α+γ eutectic and Al2RE phases.


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