2.1 Material

Hypereutectic Al-2.0 wt.% Fe alloy under study was prepared with commercially pure raw materials. The material was cast in a resistance furnace (muffle) by pouring the liquid metal into a cylindrical ingot mold and cooling in ascending mode. Resulting ingot was sectioned into various samples, which were sand blasted individually to determine the chemical composition of alloy by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (Shimadzu EDX-7000), as indicated in Table 1.
