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The porosities and intermetallic phases in a high pressure die cast Al–Mg–Si–Mn alloy was investigated using 3D X-ray computed tomography with different scanning resolutions. The experimental results demonstrated the porosity level and phase detection of dependency upon voxel sizes. The porosity levels were 0.4, 0.5 and 0.8% and the intermetallic phases were 0.3, 0.4 and 0.6% when the same casting sample was scanned at 15 μm/vox, 7.2 μm/vox and 2.1 μm/vox, respectively. However, the structural parameters should be assessed to determine the necessary and/or possible image quality, weighing factors such as scan time, field of view, and voxel sizes.
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Financial supports from EPSRC for the future LiME hub and from HAFCE, UK are gratefully acknowledged. The helps from M. Terada and D. Edwards at ZEISS Ltd. are appreciated.
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Ji, S., Watson, D., Fan, Z. (2017). X-Ray Computed Tomographic Investigation of High Pressure Die Castings. In: Ratvik, A. (eds) Light Metals 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_104
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