Review Article
An Overview of Semisolid Processing of Aluminium Alloys
Table 4
Examples of Mechanical properties of thixoformed samples.
| Process | Alloy | Feedstock production method | Heat treatment | UTS (Mpa) | YS (Mpa) | Elongation (%) |
| Thixoforging (Cho and Kang) [44] | A356 | Magnetohydrodynamic stirring (MHD) | T6 | 298 | 253 | 5.4 | Thixoforming (Haga and Kapranos) [45] | A356 | Cooling slope (CS) | T6 | 293 | 234 | 15 | Thixoforming (Haga and Kapranos) [45] | A356 | Low superheat casting (LSC) | T6 | 291 | 232 | 12 | Thixoforming (Lee and Oh) [46] | A357 | Magnetohydrodynamic stirring (MHD) | T6 | 346 | 280 | 4 |
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