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Thermomechanical Processing of Thixomolded Alloys

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A wide variety of Mg alloys have been processed by Thixomolding ® followed by thermomechanical processing (TMP)—to increase tensile, creep and fatigue strength, ductility and formability. These alloys encompass variations in Al, Zn, Ca, Mn, Sr, Y, Zr and Rare Earths (RE) in the Mg base. Due to the fine microstructure and low porosity rendered by Thixomolding, TMP has been feasible using high strain warm rolling and warm pressing. Thus, grain size is further reduced and texture can be moderated. Data is presented on the above alloys along with more extensive information on the commercial alloys AM60 and AZ61; but also the newly developed AZ70L-TH and AXJ810-TH alloys. In discussing the above processing, properties are related to microstructures.

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The authors are pleased to honor the support of NSF under Phase I & II STTR Contract 0847198, the State of Michigan and the BIRD Foundation under Contract 1243.

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  1. Thixomat/nanoMAG, Livonia, USA

    Raymond Decker & Stephen LeBeau

  2. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Tracy Berman & J. Wayne Jones

  3. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    Tori Miller

  4. University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA

    Tresa Pollock

  5. Dead Sea Magnesium Ltd., Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Nir Moskovich & Boris Bronfin

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  1. Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona, USA

    Kiran N. Solanki

  2. Lund University , Lund, Skåne Län, Sweden

    Dmytro Orlov

  3. Structural Materials Unit, National Inst for Materials Sci Structural Materials Unit, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Alok Singh

  4. IND LLC , South Jordan, Utah, USA

    Neale R. Neelameggham

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Decker, R. et al. (2017). Thermomechanical Processing of Thixomolded Alloys. In: Solanki, K., Orlov, D., Singh, A., Neelameggham, N. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_35

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