CRYSTALLIZATION AND STRUCTURE OF CAST A390.0 ALLOY WITH MELT OVERHEATING TEMPERATURE

The paper presents the research on the influence of melt overheating temperature on crystallization parameters and primary structure of cast AlSi17Cu5Mg (A390.0) alloy overheated to temperature: 820 degree C, 880 degree C, 940 degree C and 1000 degree C. It was found that the degree of overheating influences the change of microstructure significantly and morphologies of primary silicon of the castings from Al-Si alloys. Research has shown that the overheating of the liquid metal bath is one of the methods of finding more applications of hypereutectic Al-Si system alloys without the addition of modifiers.