Role of Indian ordnance factories in the development and manufacture of some of the important cast and wrought aluminium alloys during the last three decades

Abstract

NON-FERROUS alloys are generally those, wherein principal constituents. But it is not always the fact that non-ferrous alloys should be absolutely free from iron. There are many cases, where iron is purposely added, to develop certain beneficial properties while in some, the presence of this element is carefully eliminated to produce some sort of non-magnetic property.