The Role of Liquid Phase in SSM Processes

Abstract

The present chapter reports a short history and a state-of-the art of semi-solid techniques, with particular emphasis to the role of the liquid-solid fraction, being the rheological behaviour of the semi-solid slurry crucial and fundamental. The general description, with the related theoretical fundaments, is based on the data available in the recent and the past literature and finally it is integrated with some experimental results of the research carried out by the authors.