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An increase in the sum of alloying elements in industrial silumins causes the formation of excess intermetallic phases in their structure. When introducing modifiers in such alloys above a certain amount, structural components are coarsened because of overmodification, which can cause a decrease in the mechanical properties of cast alloys. The optimal consumption of the modifying microcrystalline remelt decreases from 0.6 to 0.3 wt % with an increase in the sum of alloying elements in alloys from 7.35% (AK7ch) to 14.3% (AK10M2N). When using the AlTi5 master alloy, the optimal amount of introduced titanium decreases from 0.05 to 0.01% and, in the case of the AlTi5B1 master alloy, from 0.02 to 0.01%. The modifying effect of the AlSr10 master alloy enhances with an increase in the silicon content with smaller amounts of strontium introduced into alloys. It is shown that the consumption of the metallic modifier depends on its modifying ability, as well as the sum of alloying elements in the modified silumin.
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Original Russian Text © K.V. Nikitin, V.I. Nikitin, I.Yu. Timoshkin, 2017, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Tsvetnaya Metallurgiya, 2017, No. 3, pp. 72–75.
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Nikitin, K.V., Nikitin, V.I. & Timoshkin, I.Y. Influence of modifiers on the change of mechanical properties of silumins. Russ. J. Non-ferrous Metals 58, 378–382 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1067821217040125
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