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COST 507 - Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto

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An Example using the <strong>COST</strong> <strong>507</strong> Database<br />

Here an example using <strong>da</strong>ta from "Leading System 1 is given. The quinary system Al-<br />

Fe-Mg-Mn-Si is important to the aluminium industry since it encompasses the 1000,<br />

3000 and 5000 series wrought alloys. These cover, eg, major products including<br />

lithographic sheet, UBC's (universal beverage cans) body and can end material, and<br />

material for automotive applications (body panels, space frames etc). Figs 1-3 show<br />

calculated proportions of the phases present as a function of temperature for an<br />

"idealised" 5000 series alloy, and demonstrate the power of the existing <strong>da</strong>tabase. To<br />

determine such information by experiment, whilst crucial in specific test cases, would<br />

be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. Such information is not only of<br />

relevance to the development and improvement of the above products, but also to their<br />

recycling.<br />

Thus the <strong>da</strong>tabase, still under continuing development and improvement, and currently<br />

including 78 binary and some 25 ternary <strong>da</strong>tasets (in addition to the ternary<br />

assessments from Coordination Group B) is "up and running".<br />

Concluding Remarks<br />

During the Vaals Workshop quotations in relation to the use of the thermodynamic<br />

<strong>da</strong>tabase were kindly provided on behalf of Alean International Ltd and Rolls-Royce<br />

pic. The former is reproduced here, together with an up<strong>da</strong>te of the latter:<br />

Please refer to Figs 4 and 5.<br />

"The <strong>COST</strong> <strong>507</strong> <strong>da</strong>tabase for aluminium alloys has been widely used in model alloy<br />

work: knowledge of equilibrium conditions is a prerequisite for kinetic analyses of<br />

solidification, homogenisation and annealing. The final quinary <strong>da</strong>tabase will be an<br />

invaluable tool for the European aluminium industry, applicable to alloy design and<br />

optimisation, process modelling and efforts to improve recyclability through increasing<br />

iron and silicon tolerance."<br />

Dr Ρ V Evans<br />

Alean International Ltd, Banbury Laboratory<br />

Please refer to Fig 6.<br />

"Titanium aluminides based on the TiAl phase are a relatively new class of lightweight<br />

high temperature materials that will find application in the gas turbine in the near<br />

future. The 1st generation alloys were based on Ti - 48 at% Al with additions of 2 -<br />

4 at% transition metals. However the alloy chemistry was not optimised for gas turbine<br />

applications and the chemistry microstructure relationships were poorly understood.<br />

The titanium aluminide <strong>da</strong>ta from <strong>COST</strong> <strong>507</strong> has been used and extended by Rolls-<br />

Royce to assist in solving and understanding these problems. This has enabled a viable<br />

production process for small components to be identified and initial production for<br />

testing in advanced engine demonstrators is underway".<br />

Rolls-royce pic<br />

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