Stabilization-solidification treatment of mine tailings using Portland cement, potassium dihydrogen phosphate and ferric chloride hexahydrate has been presented in Desogus et al. (2013).
To be competent as a metal caster, one must master the disciplines of heat flow, fluid flow, solidification, heat treatment, clay chemistry, and organic chemistry as well as production and industrial engineering.
This chapter presents the work that was performed within the frame of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 370, "Integrated modeling of materials" which aimed at understanding, controlling, and optimizing the microstructure evolution during solidification, heat treatment, coating, and operational service.
The alloys were produced by directional solidification and heat treatment.
A yield strength model using an experiment-based term ∆σ0 to account the effect of solidification and solution treatment is proposed, and the relationship between yield strength and ultimate tensile strength is described using an empirical equation.
The effect of the residual volume fraction of eutectic after completion of the solidification and homogenisation treatments is clearly revealed as the main parameter controlling a yield stress knock-down factor.
Mechanical properties and microstructural features of an aluminium alloy are affected by several parameters, such as alloy composition, solidification rate and heat treatment.
They also allow for a systematic assessing of the effect of chemical composition, solidification rate and heat treatment on the mechanical performance of the material.
A modified thermally controlled solidification using melt superheating treatment has been designed to an IN718C superalloy to achieve grain refinement and further improve mechanical properties.
By varying the time and temperature of heat treatment after solidification, the shape of the silicon inclusions is varied between plate-like and close-to-spherical.
The model combines on the one hand microsegregation due to long-range diffusion during solidification and subsequent heat treatment with, on the other hand, precipitation in the primary Al phase.
