M. Szucki

The efficiency analysis of grain refinement in high-zinc aluminium alloys with Ti-containing master alloy

ABSTRACT The paper concerns double high-zinc aluminium alloys inoculated with master alloys containing titan and comprises research on the influence of inoculation on grain refinement. Most aluminium alloys before being cast have relatively low strength properties and therefore a series of treatments are applied in order to improve these properties. One of the treatments is the grain fragmentation process, called grain refinement treatment that allows to improve material properties of alloy, improve the feeding properties during the casting solidification, as well as to obtain more robust machinability of casting. Al alloy with 20wt% Zn (AlZn20) was tested, inoculated with the addition of traditional master alloy AlTi3C0.15 before casting to the sand mould. The results obtained during the studies show nucleating activity of the master alloy, proved by reduced overcooling and recalescence on cooling curves. Additionally, the role of titanium in this process is explained.

Metallographic Studies of Selected Eneolithic and Bronze Age Artifacts from Poland

This work presents the results of metallographic studies performed on four Eneolithic and Bronze Age artifacts from Poland. All of them are of none archaeological context therefore its academic value is strongly reduced. The aim of this work is to deal with such a reduced data in a way of improving and verifing current state of knowledge about the artifacts. In order to achieve this goal elemental composition (XRF), microstructure analysis (SEM-EDS), macrostructure analysis (optical microscopy) and 3D scanning were performed.