Kai-kun Wang, Jian-lin Sun, Yong-lin Kang, Qi Zhang, Lei Yang, and Chun-mei Ma, Investigation on inductive heating of A356 alloy for thixo-forming, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 16(2009), No. 3, pp. 309-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1674-4799(09)60055-8
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Kai-kun Wang, Jian-lin Sun, Yong-lin Kang, Qi Zhang, Lei Yang, and Chun-mei Ma, Investigation on inductive heating of A356 alloy for thixo-forming, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 16(2009), No. 3, pp. 309-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1674-4799(09)60055-8
Kai-kun Wang, Jian-lin Sun, Yong-lin Kang, Qi Zhang, Lei Yang, and Chun-mei Ma, Investigation on inductive heating of A356 alloy for thixo-forming, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 16(2009), No. 3, pp. 309-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1674-4799(09)60055-8
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Kai-kun Wang, Jian-lin Sun, Yong-lin Kang, Qi Zhang, Lei Yang, and Chun-mei Ma, Investigation on inductive heating of A356 alloy for thixo-forming, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 16(2009), No. 3, pp. 309-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1674-4799(09)60055-8
To meet the demands of continuous stream-line for component production in the thixo-forming industry, billet heating should be of high quality and in a controllable way. A 4-step inductive heating strategy for aluminum alloy A356 was performed. Thixotropic testing and microstructure analysis showed that a homogenous temperature distribution was achieved after temperature-power-time optimization. Theoretical analysis was given concerning the thermal conductivity and heat capacity of A356 between conventional and semisolid casting microstructures. The experimental results show that the optimized 4-step strategy could be the best strategy for billet heating during the thixo-forming of aluminum alloy A356.