Volume 4, Issue 1 Winter 2010


Contents From the Editor: Your Personal Library ......................................................5


Tensile, High Strain Rate Compression and Microstructural Evaluation of Lightweight Age Hardenable Cast Fe-30Mn-9Al-XSi- 0.9C-0.5Mo Steel ..................................................................................................7


R. Howell and T. Weerasooriya, Army Research Lab, Aberdeen Proving Grounds D. Van Aken, Missouri University of Science and Technology


Development of a Lead-Free Bearing Material for Aerospace Applications ...................................................................................19


J. Thomson, R. Zavadil and M. Sahoo, CANMET-Materials Technology Laboratory A. Dadouche, W. Dmochowski and M. Conlon, Gas Turbine Laboratory


The Use of the Weibull Statistical Method to Assess the Reliability of a Development Engineered Casting Component ...................................31


R. MacKay, Nemak of Canada Corp. D. Szablewski, Transportation Technology Center


On the Mechanism of Modification of the Aluminum-Silicon Eutectic by Strontium: The Role of Nucleation .........................................................47 M. Makhlouf, Worcester Polytechnic Institute


Optical Micrograph of Mg + 0.5% Zr


Photo compliments of Partha Saha, Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. From the student project: Engineering an Efficient Zirconium-Based Grain Refiner for Magnesium Alloys.


Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Copper Upon Eutectoid Transformation of As-Cast and Austenitized Spheroidal Graphite Cast Iron ......................................................................51


J. Sertucha and P. Larrañaga, AZTERLAN J. Lacaze, Université de Toulouse M. Insausti, Universidad del País Vasco


AFS/FEF Student Technology Competition ............................................59 Metalcasting Industry Research ...................................................................77


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