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
