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The aim of the course is to give the students a specific training on the different light alloys, given their importance from an environmental point of view for reducing the vehicles and aircraft fuel consumption.
Hence, starting from considerations on today's use of light metals (Al, Mg and Ti) and on the environmental problems related to vehicles pollution, as well as on the need for their further lightening, the aforementioned three metals will be studied in detail. In particular, at first the students will analyse the ores extraction and the properties of pure metals, then they will acquire competences on the effects on mechanical, physical and technological properties induced by the addition of alloying elements, by the treatments of the molten metal, by heat treatments and by different manufacturing routes as well as on the recycling of these alloys.