Induction reheating of A356.2 aluminum alloy and thixocasting as automobile component

作     者：H.LAKSHMI M.C.VINAY KUMAR RAGHUNATH P.KUMAR V.RAMANARAYANAN K.S.S.MURTHY P.DUTTA 

作者机构：National Facility for Semisolid FormingDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringIndian Institute of Science Department of Electrical EngineeringIndian Institute of Science 

出 版 物：《中国有色金属学会会刊：英文版》 (Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China)

年 卷 期：2010年第20卷第S3期

页      面：961-967页

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学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

基　　金：The financial support from Ministry of Mines TIFAC Department of Science and Technology and Defense Research and Development Organization 

主　　题：aluminum alloy thixo-casting electromagnetic stirring induction reheating process parameters 

摘      要：The development work for producing an automobile component by thixocasting using A356.2 alloy was *** the first step,the alloy was electromagnetically stirred and solidified to produce a billet with non-dendritic *** microstructure depended on several process parameters such as stirring intensity,stirring frequency,cooling rate,and melt initial *** a series of computational studies and controlled experiments,a set of process parameters were identified to produce the best *** of a billet with non-dendritic microstructure to a semisolid temperature was the next step for thixo-casting of the *** reheating process was characterized for various reheating cycles using a vertical-type reheating *** induction heating cycle was optimized to obtain a near-uniform temperature distribution in radial as well as axial direction of the billet,and the heating was continued until the liquid fraction reached about 50%.These parameters were determined with the help of a computational fluid dynamics(CFD) model of die filling and solidification of the semisolid *** heated billets were subsequently thixo-cast into automobile components using a real-time controlled die casting *** results show that the castings are near net shape,free from porosity,good surface finish and have superior mechanical properties compared to those produced by conventional die casting processes using the same alloy.