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dc.contributor.advisor | Wilkinson, David | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | Malakhov, Dmitri | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yan, Xiaofei | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-01T14:11:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-01T14:11:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007-09 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/21797 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>The application aluminum sheet alloy for light vehicle development was limited by the high cost of alloy fabrication. The impurity iron, which is easily picked up during fabrication, deteriorates its formability. The sheet alloy produced by continuous casting techniques was showing lower in-service performance than the one produced with traditional high-cost direct-chill casting technique. Therefore, enhancing the general formability of the aluminum alloy became .the aim of many researchers and engineers in past decades.</p><p>This project was launched to detect a possible modification effect of rare-earth (RE) element on a Al-Mg-Fe alloy, which is a simplified AA5754 alloy. Cerium was chosen as the RE element to test with. The influence of this rare-earth element on the alloy grain microstructure, phase morphology, and corresponding mechanical behavior was investigated.</p><p>It was found that cerium had a modification effect on the phase morphology to some extent. Its addition provided a great grain refinement in as-cast alloys. However, after thermo-mechanical processing, this effect would be eliminated by the small broken particles and recrystallized fine grains. It was found that the mechanical performance of the cerium-containing AA5754 was neither enhanced nor deteriorated. The AA5754 alloy remained non-heat-treatable after the addition of cerium.</p> | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Cerium, Alloy fabrication, Al-Mg-Fe Alloy | en_US |
dc.title | Effect of Small Cerium Additions on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg-Fe Alloy | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Materials Science and Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Applied Science (MASc) | en_US |
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