THIXOCASTING OF ALUMINIUM ALLOYS : FROM MICROSTRUCTURE IN THE SEMI-SOLID STATE TO MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

摘要

This paper is concerned with the description of the various production routes of semi-solid aluminium alloys suitable for thixocasting, the characterisation of their microstructures and the correlations between these microstructures and both their rheological behaviour in the semi-solid state and their mechanical properties after thixocasting.