Metals, Volume 15, Issue 11

The room-temperature and high-temperature microstructural characteristics and tensile properties of an Al-12Si-4Cu-2Ni-0.5Mg piston alloy modified with calcium (Ca; denoted as AC sample) or phosphorus (P; denoted as AP sample) under different heat tr...

To address the technical challenges involved in the resource utilization of hot metal containing high levels of vanadium (V: 2–5%) and chromium (Cr: 1–5%), this study proposes a novel method based on pyrometallurgical selective oxidation...

The low-cycle fatigue behavior of three titanium alloys (including two wrought alloys that are commercially available and one under development via a powder sintering technique) is described in order to assess the relative capabilities of a fourth, n...

The service life of graphite anodes—key consumables in the Pr/Nd fluoride molten salt electrolysis process—directly governs production continuity, cost-efficiency, and supply chain stability. This study systematically evaluated five indus...

Zirconium belongs to the group of critical rare metals and is primarily used in industry. Its most important application, as the basis for specialized alloys, is in nuclear reactors, owing to its exceptionally very low thermal neutron absorption cros...

In response to the growing industrial demand for ultra-high-purity gold, a vacuum distillation-assisted hydrometallurgical process is developed in this study for the industrial-scale production of 99.999% pure (5N) gold from crude Au–Ag alloy f...

Cavitation erosion is a predominant failure mode of austenitic stainless steels in corrosive fluid environments, severely limiting their durability in nuclear piping and hydraulic components. In this study, five 316LN steels with 0.008–0.34 wt....

In welding solidification, the morphology of residual liquid in the solid–liquid coexistence region affects the susceptibility to solidification cracking because this cracking is due to localized shrinkage strain in the residual liquid. Therefo...

The simulation of solidification microstructures of cast alloys is crucial to the integrated “process–microstructure–property” numerical simulation. In order to verify the accuracy of the solidification microstructure simulati...

Gd4Co3 is a promising magnetocaloric material with a high magnetic entropy value. However, it undergoes a first-order magnetic transition, which hinders practical applications. Hence, (Gd4Co3)100−xGex (x = 5, 10, 15) were studied to obtain high...