This paper summarizes attempts to incorporate fl y ash into aluminum castings to decrease the energy content, material content, cost, and weight of selected industrial components, while also improving selected properties. It is shown that fl y ash can be incorporated into an aluminum-alloy matrix using stir casting and pressure infi ltration techniques. The sand and permanent mold castings, whi...

Components for engineering systems, such as gas turbines and jet engines operating at high temperature are usually produced in superalloys. The investment casting process is most widely used for manufacturing these components due to the ability of the process to produce parts with complex geometries to close dimensional tolerances. Other processing routes are less advantageous due to high mecha...

Ti and Ti alloys have been widely applied to biomedical and dental fields and the demands for their applications have increased gradually in these fields. Ti and its alloys have been used as biomaterial because of their high corrosion resistance, low toxicity, low elastic modulus and low density. Their defects are low shear strength, low wear resistance, low weldability, low formability and low...