Embodiments of the present invention provide a die casting aluminum alloy, including the following components in percentage by mass: 11.0% to 14.0% of silicon; 0.1% to 0.9% of manganese; 0.1% to 1.0% of magnesium; 0.3% to 1.4% of iron; less than or equal to 0.2% of copper; and aluminum and inevitable impurities. The die casting aluminum alloy has good formability, heat conductivity, and corrosion resistance, and certain mechanical properties, which can avoid problems of a low yield of die-casting fittings, burn-in caused by severe heat emission of a product, corrosion in a coastal environment, assembly difficulties caused by insufficient mechanical properties, severe deformation in a wind load condition, and the like, so as to satisfy requirements of global delivery of complex communications products.

A magnesium alloy suitable for use as a corrodible downhole article. The alloy has a corrosion rate of at least 50 mg/cm.sup.2/day in 15% KCl at 93 C. and a 0.2% proof strength of at least 50 MPa when tested using standard tensile test method ASTM B557-10.

The present invention discloses a new process for the injection of metallic materials into polymer-based moulds, the mould itself required for a process of this nature, and the apparatus which will execute the process and will employ the mould, in such a way that moulds with greater or lesser properties of flexibility are subjected to a pressurised injection of metal thereon, it being possible to adjust and coordinate the parameters of pressure, flowrate, closure of the mould, and the conditions of the material, thanks to a new polymer-based mould which adapts its configuration to the rest of the system and to the pressurised injection of the material.

A corrodible downhole article includes a magnesium alloy. The magnesium alloy includes: 1-9 wt % Zn; 1-2 wt % Cu; 0.5-1.0 wt % Mn; and 0.1-5 wt % of a corrosion promoting element (e.g., Ni). The alloy can have a 0.2% proof strength of at least 150 MPa when tested using standard tensile test method ASTM B557-10.

Method of refining metal alloys A method of refining the grain size of (i) an alloy comprising aluminum and at least 3% w/w silicon or (ii) an alloy comprising magnesium, comprises the steps of (a) adding sufficient niobium and boron to the alloy in order to form niobium diboride or Al.sub.3Nb or both, or (b) adding niobium diboride to the alloy, or (c) adding Al.sub.3Nb to the alloy, or (d) any combination thereof.

An aluminum alloy suitable for casting transmission clutch housings, the aluminum alloy includes about 12 to about 16 weight percent silicon; about 0.0 to about 6.0 weight percent copper; about 0.2 to about 0.5 weight percent magnesium; about 0.1 to about 0.5 weight percent chromium; about 0 to about 1.0 weight percent each of iron, manganese, and zinc; less than 0.1 weight percent each of strontium and phosphorous; and about 0.0 to about 0.25 weight percent other trace elements. Also disclosed is a high pressure die cast article, such as a transmission clutch housing.

A CAE analysis die model is produced such that a cavity of a die for obtaining a cast product is divided into multiple elements. Fluidity analysis and solidification analysis are performed under a predetermined casting condition by means of the die model to calculate, for each element, a factor regarding growth of a solidification structure, a factor regarding purity of molten metal, and a factor regarding a hole defect. Mechanical characteristics of each portion of the cast product are obtained by a regression expression obtained by multiple regression analysis using mechanical characteristics of the cast product as an objective variable and using each factor as an explanatory variable.

An alloy modifying agent for use in preparing a metal semisolid slurry, where the components and mass ratio thereof is silicon:iron:copper:manganese:magnesium:zinc:titanium:lead:aluminum having a mass ratio of (6.05-6.95):(0.15-0.45):(0.12-0.65):(0.002-0.006):(0.001-0.5):(0.025-0.05):(0.002-0.08):(0.002-0.06):(90.5-93.2). Also, a method for preparing the alloy modifying agent and a method for using the alloy modifying agent. The alloy modifying agent is capable of increasing the solid-liquid ratio and the spherical crystal content of the semisolid slurry, increasing the preparation efficiency of the semisolid slurry and the quality of the slurry, and ensuring the quality of a final die casting product.

A method and apparatus casts a material with nano-micro duplex grain structure. The apparatus is comprised of module system, heating system, casting mold and gating system, multiaxial compound motion system accompanied by the following technological characteristics; alloy smelting; after heat preservation, alloy melt are poured into the casting mold which is put into the centrifugal barrel of the six-axis motion system; then the casting mold carries out composite motion and the alloy melt starts solidification; as a result, casting AlSi alloy block with multi-scale nano-structure comprising of nano-micro duplex grain group are prepared. The advantages of the present invention includes that multi-scale casting nano-structure with nano-micro duplex grain group are obtained because of the composite shear flow field generated in the alloy melt.