Study of microstructure of chill cast aluminium bronzes (Cu-AI-Fe-Mn)

Abstract

SUBSTANTIAL information is available on the microstru-ctures of high tensile aluminium -bronzes but most of the literature is pertaining to the alloys containing nickel. Exhaustive amount of work was carried out by Gupta et al. at the National Metallurgical Laboratory to study the mechanical properties of aluminium-bronze alloys in the chill-cast condition without nickel addition, the results of which have already been reported in an earlier paper. The present paper relates to the study of microstructures of these chill-cast aluminium-bronze alloys. A few microstructures of Cu-Al-Fe system have been given by Copper Development Association in their recent publication on aluminium-bronzes.2