Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy: Recent Advances

Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy: Recent Advances updates the very successful book Fundamentals of Aluminium Metallurgy. As the technologies related to casting and forming of aluminum components are rapidly improving, with new technologies generating alternative manufacturing methods that improve competitiveness, this book is a timely resource. Sections provide an overview of recent research breakthroughs, methods and techniques of advanced manufacture, including additive manufacturing and 3D printing, a comprehensive discussion of the status of metalcasting technologies, including sand casting, permanent mold casting, pressure diecastings and investment casting, and recent information on advanced wrought alloy development, including automotive bodysheet materials, amorphous glassy materials, and more.

Target readership for the book includes PhD students and academics, the casting industry, and those interested in new industrial opportunities and advanced products.

Includes detailed and specific information on the processing of aluminum alloys, including additive manufacturing and advanced casting techniquesWritten for a broad ranging readership, from academics, to those in the industry who need to know about the latest techniques for working with aluminumComprehensive, up-to-date coverage, with the most recent advances in the industry

1. New Research Techniques in Aluminium Alloy Development
2. Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium-Based Alloys and Composites
3. How to Design and Buy Aluminium Castings
4. Aluminium Investment Casting and Rapid Prototyping for Aerospace Applications
5. Advances in the Sand Casting of Aluminium Alloys
6. New Hypoeutectic/Hypereutectic Die-Casting Alloys and New Permanent Mould Casting Alloys That Rely on Strontium for Their Die Soldering Resistance 
7. Thermal Conductivity of Aluminium High-Pressure Die Castings
8. Advanced Casting Technologies Using High Shear Melt Conditioning
9. Treatment by External Fields
10. Automotive Wrought Aluminium Alloys
11. Aluminium Lithium Alloys
12. Aluminium Scandium Alloys
12. Control of Distortion in Aluminium Heat Treatment
14. Recent Insights Into Corrosion Initiation at the Nanoscale