A review: Hot topics on magnesium technology in China

Abstract

Magnesium alloys have wide applications in automobiles, aerospace and so on due to many advantages, while a number of undesirable properties including poor corrosion resistance, inferior creep resistance and bad plastic processing ability have hindered their applications. Creep-resistant magnesium alloy design, plastic processing of magnesium alloys and rapid solidification processing of magnesium alloys have become the hot topics in magnesium technology. Other than these, surface modification as well as laser beam welding are also involved. The research progress and development in magnesium technology in China are reviewed in the paper.

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