Light Alloys: Metallurgy of the Light Metals (2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Ian Polmear, David StJohn, Jian-Feng Nie, Ma Qian

SELECTED CONTENTS

1 The Light Metals

General Introduction

  • Characteristics of light metals and alloys
  • Beryllium
  • Relative abundance
  • Trends in production and applications
  • Recycling

Production of Aluminium

  • Bayer process for alumina recovery
  • Production of aluminium by the Hall–Héroult process
  • Alternative methods for producing aluminium

Production of Aluminium

  • Electrolytic extraction of magnesium
  • Thermic processes

Production of Aluminium

2 Production of Aluminium

Production of Aluminium

  • Strain-hardening characteristics
  • Substructure hardening
  • Forming limit curves
  • Textures
  • Secondary work-hardening effects
  • Annealing Behavior

Production of Aluminium

  • Decomposition of supersaturated solid solutions
  • The GP zones solvus
  • Precipitate-free zones at grain boundaries
  • Microalloying effects
  • Hardening mechanisms

Production of Aluminium

  • Precipitation sequences
  • Clustering phenomena
  • GPB zones in Al–Cu–Mg alloys
  • Intermediate precipitates
  • Secondary precipitation

Corrosion

  • Surface oxide film
  • Contact with dissimilar metals
  • Influence of alloying elements and impurities
  • Crevice corrosion
  • Cavitation corrosion
  • Waterline corrosion
  • Metallurgical and thermal treatments

Production of Aluminium

  • Tensile properties
  • Toughness
  • Fatigue
  • Stress–corrosion cracking
  • Corrosion fatigue
  • Creep

3 Production of Aluminium

Introduction

Production of Aluminium

  • Grain training
    • Nucleation of the primary phase
    • Grain growth and morphology
  • Eutectic solidification

Grain Refinement

  • Factors influencing grain refinement
  • Grain refinement by refinement methods and inoculation with
    master alloys

    • Aluminium alloys
    • Magnesium alloys

Production of Aluminium

  • Fluidity
  • Volumetric shrinkage
  • Porosity
  • Hot tearing

Casting Processes

  • Introduction
  • Melting
    • Aluminium alloys
    • Magnesium alloys
  • High-pressure die casting
    • Aluminium alloys
    • Die soldering
    • Heat treatment
    • Magnesium alloys
  • Semi-solid processing
  • Squeeze casting
  • Gravity and low-pressure casting processes
  • Sand and precision sand casting processes
    • Sand casting
    • Cosworth process
    • ILP Process

Production of Aluminium

  • T-Mag
  • Ablation casting
  • Application of external fields
    • Melt conditioning
    • Ultrasound and magnetic fields
  • Twin-roll casting of magnesium
  • Joining

4 Production of Aluminium

Production of Aluminium

  • Melting and casting
  • Continuous casting with moving molds
  • Homogenization of DC ingots
  • Fabrication of DC ingots
  • Thermal treatment
    • Solution treatment
    • Quenching
    • Ageing
    • Thermomechanical processing

Production of Aluminium

  • Nomenclature of alloys
  • Temper or heat treatment nomenclatures

Non-Heat-Treatable Alloys

  • Super-purity and commercial-purity aluminium (1xxx series)
  • Al–Mn and Al–Mn–Mg alloys (3xxx series)
  • Al–Mg alloys (5xxx series)
  • Miscellaneous alloys (8xxx series)

Heat-Treatable Alloys

  • Al–Cu alloys (2xxx series)
  • Al–Cu–Mg alloys (2xxx series)
  • Al–Mg–Si alloys (6xxx series)
  • Al–Zn–Mg alloys (7xxx series)
  • Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloys (7xxx series)
  • Lithium-containing alloys

Joining

  • Welding
    • Arc welding
    • Friction stir welding
    • Laser welding
  • Brazing
  • Soldering
  • Diffusion bonding

Special Products

  • Aircraft alloys
  • Automotive sheet and structural alloys
  • Shipping
  • Building and construction
  • Packaging
    • Canstock
    • Foil
  • Powder metallurgy products
    • Conventional processing
    • Spray forming
  • Aluminium alloy bearing
  • Superplastic alloys
  • Electrical conductor alloys
  • Electric storage batteries
    • Aluminium-air batteries
    • Aluminium-ion batteries

5 Special Products

Special Products, Temper, Special Products

  • US Aluminium Association System
  • British system

Special Products

  • Modification
  • Binary Al–Si alloys
  • Al–Si–Mg alloys
  • Al – Si – Cu alloys

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

6 Contents:

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

7 Titanium Alloys

Introduction

  • Classification of titanium alloys
  • Basic principles of heat treatment

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

  • General
  • Fully-α alloys
  • Near-α alloys
  • Ti–Cu age-hardening alloy

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

  • Introduction to Ti-6Al-4V and other common α-β alloys
  • Annealing treatments
  • Properties of annealed α – β alloys
  • Quenching from β phase field
  • Ageing of titanium martensites
  • Decomposition of metastable β during ageing
  • β Phase separation

Alloys Based on the Aluminium–Copper System

  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation

Fabrication

  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • Machining
  • β Phase separation
  • Joining
  • β Phase separation

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Alloy Casting

  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • Corrosion
  • Stress–corrosion cracking
  • Corrosion fatigue

Titanium Alloy Casting

  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
    • β Phase separation
    • β Phase separation
    • Automotive
    • β Phase separation
    • β Phase separation
    • β Phase separation
    • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation

8 Titanium Alloy Casting

Composites

  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
  • β Phase separation
    • Aluminium alloys
    • Magnesium alloys
    • β Phase separation

Titanium Alloy Casting

Performance and Corrosion Forms of Aluminum and Its Alloys

  • Aluminium alloys
  • Magnesium alloys
  • β Phase separation

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Alloy Casting

Titanium Aluminides

Titanium Alloy Casting

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