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    Strength Characteristics of Treated Soil with Proposed Layer Formation

    The engineering characteristics of the soil, soil-fly ash and fly ash-lime, were examined to utilize as base layer material in civil construction. The influence of fly ash percentage and the effect of curing o...

    N. Sivakumar, A. Mandal in Journal of Wuhan University of Technology-… (2023)

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    Characteristics and Manufacturability of Duplex Stainless Steel: A Review

    Duplex stainless steels (DSS) have been growing continuously as they are cost effective alternative to austenitic stainless steel with better mechanical and corrosion resistance. Duplex stainless steel composi...

    S. Patra, A. Agrawal, A. Mandal in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Me… (2021)

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    Effect of Annealing on the Microstructure, Texture and Mechanical Properties of a Dual-Phase Ultrahigh-strength TWIP Steel

    The present study investigates the effect of annealing time and temperature on the microstructural restoration (by recovery and recrystallization), texture evolution and tensile properties of a dual-phase TWIP...

    N. K. Tewary, S. K. Ghosh, A. Mandal in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2020)

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    The Influence of Segregation of Mn on the Recrystallization Behavior of C-Mn Steels

    The influence of Mn segregation that occurs during casting on recrystallization kinetics has been explored for a C-Mn automotive steel. A homogenization heat treatment was used to remove Mn segregation, while ...

    C. Slater, A. Mandal, C. Davis in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B (2019)

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    Microstructural Changes in Hypoeutectic Al–Si Alloys by Low Shear and Vibration Induced Melt Conditioning Setup

    In the present work, refinement of microstructure in hypoeutectic Al–Si alloys, i.e., A356 and Al–7wt%Si has been reported. One of the mechanical technique, melt conditioning, was used to refine the microstruc...

    Shristy Jha, G. Sree Lakshmi Aditya in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Me… (2018)

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    Coarsening Kinetics of Semi-solid A356–5wt%TiB2 in situ Composite

    An attempt has been made to investigate the coarsening behaviour of semisolid A356–5wt%TiB2 in situ composite produced by Cooling slope casting. It was found that the average grain size of α-Al in the gravity-cas...

    S. Deepak Kumar, Mihira Acharya, A. Mandal in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Me… (2015)

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    Effect of Strontium and Misch Metal on Al–14Si–3Mg Alloy

    The individual and combined effect of Strontium and Misch metal on microstructure and properties of Al–14Si–3Mg alloy was investigated. Addition of 3 wt% Mg to Al–14Si alloy resulted in microstructure comprisi...

    A. Mandal, Mihira Acharya in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (2015)

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    Effect of Cooling Slope Angle on Microstructure of Al-7Si Alloy

    Attempts were made to obtain non-dendritic microstructure in Al-7Si alloy by pouring the melt on mild steel cooling slope. The melt was poured into the slope at different angles—15°, 30°, 45° and 60°. The pour...

    Mihira Acharya, S. Deepak Kumar in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (2015)

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    Effect of Thixoforming on the Microstructure and Tensile Properties of A356 Alloy and A356-5TiB2 In-situ Composite

    In the present work, A356 alloy and in situ A356-5TiB2 composite feedstock was produced by employing Cooling slope casting technique. The technique resulted in near spherical morphology of primary α-Al phase in t...

    S. Deepak Kumar, A. Mandal in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (2015)

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    Solid fraction evolution characteristics of semi-solid A356 alloy and in-situ A356-TiB2 composites investigated by differential thermal analysis

    The key factor in semi-solid metal processing is the solid fraction at the forming temperature because it affects the microstructure and mechanical properties of the thixoformed components. Though an enormous ...

    S. Deepak Kumar, A. Mandal, M. Chakraborty in International Journal of Minerals, Metallu… (2015)

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    Microstructure and Thermal Characterization of Plasma-Sprayed Nanostructured La2Ce2O7-Doped YSZ Coatings

    Nanostructured La2Ce2O7-doped YSZ coatings were developed using atmospheric plasma-spraying technique by optimizing various process parameters. To ensure the retention of nanostructure, the molten state of nanoag...

    S. Mantry, A. Mandal, D. K. Mishra, B. B. Jha in Journal of Thermal Spray Technology (2014)

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    Development of a novel hypereutectic aluminum-siliconmagnesium alloy for die casting

    A novel hypereutectic die casting Al-Si-Mg alloy with relatively high Mg content was developed. The optimized microstructure of the alloy is characterized by a fine dispersion of eutectic Si and Mg2Si particles i...

    A. Mandal, M. M. Makhlouf in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (2009)

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    Indentation characteristics of rapidly solidified Al-Cu-V and Al-Cu-Ti alloys

    We report indentation characteristics of metallic glasses and nano-composites in Al-Cu-V as well as in Al-Cu-Ti systems. The melt spun ribbons of these alloys are employed to study the surface hardness charact...

    R. K. Mandal, A. Mandal, D. K. Misra in Transactions of the Indian Institute of Me… (2008)

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    A Mathematical Model to Predict Microstructure of Heat-Treated Steel

    The dual effects of chemical composition and cooling rate on microstructural evolution were theoretically simulated extending the Johnson-Mehl equation for non-isothermal pro-eutectoid ferrite transformation k...

    V.K. Sinha, R.S. Prasad, A. Mandal, J. Maity in Journal of Materials Engineering and Perfo… (2007)