Current research progress in grain refinement of cast magnesium alloys: A review article

Y Ali, D Qiu, B Jiang, F Pan, MX Zhang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2015 - Elsevier
Grain refinement of cast magnesium alloys, particularly in magnesium–aluminium (Mg–Al)
based alloys, has been an active research topic in the past two decades, because it has …

Recent advances in micro-alloyed wrought magnesium alloys: Theory and design

B Jiang, Z Dong, A Zhang, J Song, F Pan - Transactions of Nonferrous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Micro-alloying design of wrought magnesium (Mg) alloys is an important strategy to achieve
high mechanical properties at a low cost. In the last two decades, significant progress has …

A novel method to 3D-print fine-grained AlSi10Mg alloy with isotropic properties via inoculation with LaB6 nanoparticles

Q Tan, J Zhang, N Mo, Z Fan, Y Yin, M Bermingham… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal additive manufacturing offers a tool to bring formerly unmanufacturable, geometrically
complex, engineered structures into existence. However, considerable challenges remain in …

Controlling mechanical properties of additively manufactured hastelloy X by altering solidification pattern during laser powder-bed fusion

A Keshavarzkermani, R Esmaeilizadeh, U Ali… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Like other manufacturing processes, controlling the microstructure of additively
manufactured parts is essential to reach the desirable mechanical properties. However …

Grain refinement of magnesium alloys: a review of recent research, theoretical developments, and their application

DH StJohn, MA Easton, M Qian, JA Taylor - Metallurgical and materials …, 2013 - Springer
This paper builds on the “Grain Refinement of Mg Alloys” published in 2005 and reviews the
grain refinement research on Mg alloys that has been undertaken since then with an …

Roles of lanthanum and cerium in grain refinement of steels during solidification

Y Ji, MX Zhang, H Ren - Metals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Refinement of as-cast structures is one of the most effective approaches to improve
mechanical properties, formability, and surface quality of steel castings and ingots. In the …

The effect of Al8Mn5 intermetallic particles on grain size of as-cast Mg–Al–Zn AZ91D alloy

Y Wang, M **a, Z Fan, X Zhou, GE Thompson - Intermetallics, 2010 - Elsevier
Al8Mn5 intermetallic particles are usually present in most of commercial Mg–Al based
alloys. In recent years, the ability for the Al8Mn5 particles to act as potent nucleation sites for …

Nucleation and growth crystallography of Al8Mn5 on B2-Al (Mn, Fe) in AZ91 magnesium alloys

G Zeng, JW **an, CM Gourlay - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Manganese is widely added to Mg-Al-based alloys to form Al-(Mn, Fe) intermetallics that
combat impurity Fe. Here EBSD, deep etching and FIB-tomography are combined to study …

Crystallographic study of Al3Zr and Al3Nb as grain refiners for Al alloys

W Feng, QIU Dong, Z Liu, J Taylor, M Easton… - … of Nonferrous Metals …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The potency of Al 3 Zr and Al 3 Nb as grain refiners for Al alloys was investigated
from a crystallographic point of view using the edge-to-edge matching (E2EM) model. The …

Understanding the co-poisoning effect of Zr and Ti on the grain refinement of cast aluminum alloys

D Qiu, JA Taylor, MX Zhang - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2010 - Springer
The “co-poisoning” effect between Zr and Ti (derived from Al-Zr and Al-Ti-B master alloy
additions) on the grain refinement of cast aluminum alloys is studied from a crystallographic …