High Pressure Die Casting Process for Light Alloys
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 2220
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solidification; metal casting; numerical modelling; microstructure; mechanical property; ICME; materials genome; machine learning
Interests: Al alloys and composites; grain refinement; casting; materials properties; solidification
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As one of the most popular manufacturing processes for light metals such as aluminium and magnesium alloys in the casting industry, high-pressure die casting is known for its high productivity, high dimensional accuracy and excellent mechanical properties. However, due to the fierce turbulence and limited shrinkage feeding capability, defects such as entrapped air and shrinkage porosity can form in castings, which affects the stability of mechanical properties in the castings. Such variation in mechanical properties between Al-based or Mg-based alloys has been extensively researched and the main explanation comes down to the randomness in distribution of the above-mentioned defects in castings, which causes inhomogeneity in the cast microstructure and leads to early failure during the material deformation process. The formation and existence of potential defects in the HPDC process for light metals poses a huge threat to the alloy development, process design, as well as the manufacturing and application of HPDC products. In this Special Issue, the complete cycle of the HPDC process for light alloys will be addressed. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas from both experimental and modelling perspectives:
- Material selection/alloy development
- Microstructure and mechanical properties of the HPDC alloy
- HPDC machine selection and process design/optimization
- Melt flow, heat transfer, turbulence, intense shearing in HPDC
- Alloy nucleation, grain refinement, micro-segregation
- Solidification characteristics, defects formation mechanism, cast quality control
- Heat treatment and subsequent processing techniques
- Metal recycling and circulation
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analysis and ICME/material genome research work regarding the HPDC process
Dr. Kun Dou
Dr. Yijie Zhang
Dr. Tian Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-pressure die casting (HPDC)
- light alloy
- solidification
- porosity
- grain refinement
