Aluminum-Silicon Casting Alloys Atlas of Microstructures

The Aluminum-Silicon Casting Alloys Atlas of Microstructures provides any engineer or researcher who works with aluminum castings with a practical and substantive tool for the visual analysis of the microscopic images of the microstructure of the aluminum casting alloys, as examined during routine laboratory procedures. The gallery of microstructure images presented in the Atlas has been selected and put in a systematic order with two main goals in mind:


1. Help the reader who has an image of an alloy microstructure identify the examined alloy in a gallery of standard casting Al-Si alloys;


2. Help the reader to identify the typical microstructure of an alloy based on its estimated cooling rate