Research Article

Solidification Behavior and Microstructure of Al-7Si Alloys with Individual and Combined Additions of Sr and Yb

Figure 1

The cooling curve and derivative curve were used to measure the characteristic temperature of the eutectic reaction: (a) the cooling curve of (Sr + Yb)-modified alloy with its corresponding first and second derivative curves indicating characteristic parameters and (b) the eutectic arrest is magnified, and the main characteristic temperature (TN, TG, and TMin) extracted from the curve are shown.
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