Thixoforming of AM50 magnesium alloy

Designing heterogeneous microstructured superior strength-ductility magnesium by blend-press-sinter powder metallurgy process

“…However, the inherent relatively poor strength, formability, degradation resistance and thermal stability are the major limiting factor for massive usage of magnesium in structural application. Mitigation of these limitations of magnesium is the priority for materials scientist and a wide range of success has been attained by either alloying it with suitable elements as a more traditional way and/or reinforcing with secondary phases as a more non-traditional way [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Success of alloying and/or reinforcing depends on their ability to modify the microstructure of the base element or the alloy through individual or multiple effects, ranging from merely by their presence as second phase to introducing new solid solution and/or intermetallic phase to modify the existing phase and/or grain morphology.…”