Effects of Solidification Rate in the Microstructure of Al-Si5Cu3 Aluminum Cast Alloy Maria Eduarda Farina Pedro Bell Carlos Raimundo Frick Ferreira Berenice Anina Dedavid 10.6084/m9.figshare.6152138.v1 https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Effects_of_Solidification_Rate_in_the_Microstructure_of_Al-Si5Cu3_Aluminum_Cast_Alloy/6152138 <div><p>Aluminium alloy Al-Si5Cu3 (319) is one of the most commonly used casting alloys for automobile components, due to its casting characteristics. Iron is the major impurity element that influences the detrimental β-phase formation in secondary aluminum alloys. In the present study, we investigated the influence of the cooling rate on the formation of iron compounds, α-Al15(Mn,Fe)3Si2 and β-Fe5AlSi phases, in Al-Si5Cu3 containing 1.0% Fe, 0.5% Mn and 0.2% Mg, by thermal analysis and metallography. The results show that the high cooling rates, between 10-103 K/s, are able to reduce and nullify the formation of needle-like β-Al5FeSi phase, and help the formation of the Chinese scripts α-Al15(Fe,Mn)3Si2 phase. The analysis of the curves reveals that the increase of the cooling rate increases the temperature of nucleation of the α-Al dendrite and decrease the eutectics Al-Si and Al-Cu phases.</p></div> 2018-04-18 02:58:47 Solidification Al-Si alloys iron-compounds thermal analysis CA-CCTA