TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Hassan Abdelghani Abdelaziz AU - Iman Salah Eldin Elmahallawi , AU - Ragaie Mohamed Rashad , AU - Yehia Mohamed Salama Shash , TI - Effect of ceramic nano - particles on wear and corrosion properties of aluminium silicon hypereutectic cast alloys (A390) / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Hassan Abdelghani Abdelaziz , KW - Hypereutectic AISi cast alloys KW - Nano- dispersion KW - Semisolid processing N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Design and Production; Issued also as CD N2 - Hypereutectic aluminium - silicon cast alloy (A390) was used as the matrix and the reinforcing particles were alumina and titanium dioxide both are in the nano - scale with size ranges from 40-50 nm . The nano - particles with different weight fractions and mixture were stirred in the matrix in both semi - solid and liquid states . The result support the idea that the introduction of nano- particles induces a refining role to the microstructural features ER -