Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Department of
First Advisor
Jeffrey E Shield
Second Advisor
Jian Wang
Date of this Version
Spring 2-21-2020
Abstract
Magnesium is the lightest engineering metal 1 However, conventional Mg alloys typically suffer from low strength and poor deformability due to very few slip systems and easy twinning 3 Alloying Mg with other materials and microstructural engineering are promising approaches to increase ductility and strength of Mg In the current work, non equilibrium solidification conditions were applied to induce a transition from regular to anomalous eutectic in Mg Al eutectic alloy such that four distinguished microstructures were acquired and the corresponding formation mechanisms were investigated
Comments
This research was presented as a poster in the Graduate Student Symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in February 2020.