Vicario, IbanViteri, EsterMontero, JessicaDjurdjevic, MileHuber, GerhardGómez, Iban Vicario2018-07-26Vicario , I , Viteri , E , Montero , J , Djurdjevic , M , Huber , G & Gómez , I V 2018 , ' The Determination of Dendrite Coherency Point Characteristics Using Three New Methods for Aluminum Alloys ' , Applied Sciences , vol. 8 , no. 8 , 1236 , pp. 1236 . https://doi.org/10.3390/app80812362076-3417researchoutputwizard: 11556/600Publisher Copyright: © 2018 by the authors.The aim of this work is to give an overview of existing methods and to introduce three new methods for the determination of the Dendrite Coherency Point (DCP) for AlSi10Mg alloys, as well as to compare the acquired values of DCP based on a thermal analysis and on the analysis of cooling curves working with only one thermocouple. Additionally, the impact of alloying and contaminant elements on the DCP will be also studied. The first two proposed methods employ the higher order derivatives of the cooling curves. The DCP was determined as the crossing point of the second and third derivative curves plotted versus time (method 1) or that of the temperature (method 2) with the zero line just after the maximum liquidus temperature. The third proposed method is based on the determination of the crossing point of the third solid fraction derivative curve with the zero line, corresponding to a minimum of the second derivative. A Taguchi design for the experiments was developed to study the DCP values in the AlSi10Mg alloy. The DCP temperature values of the test alloys were compared with the DCP temperatures predicted by the previous methods and the influence of the major and minor alloying elements and contaminants over the DCP. The new processes obtained a correlation factor r2 from 0.954 and 0.979 and a standard deviation from 1.84 to 2.6 °C. The obtained correlation values are higher or similar than those obtained using previous methods with an easier way to define the DCP, allowing for a better automation of the accuracy of DCP determination. The use of derivative curves plotted versus temperature employed in the last two proposed methods, where the test samples did not have an influence over the registration curves, is proposed to have a better accuracy than those of the previously described methods.14752470enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessjournal article10.3390/app8081236Aluminum alloysDendrite coherency pointDCPThermal analysisAluminum alloysDendrite coherency pointDCPThermal analysisGeneral Materials ScienceInstrumentationGeneral EngineeringProcess Chemistry and TechnologyComputer Science ApplicationsFluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesProject IDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/296024/EU/New Induction Wireless Manufacturing Efficient Process for Energy Intensive Industries/NIWEinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/296024/EU/New Induction Wireless Manufacturing Efficient Process for Energy Intensive Industries/NIWEFunding InfoThis work has been partially funded by the Basque Government through the ETORGAI_x000D_ programme ZE-2016/00018 and from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological_x000D_ development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 296024.This work has been partially funded by the Basque Government through the ETORGAI_x000D_ programme ZE-2016/00018 and from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological_x000D_ development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 296024.http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051075597&partnerID=8YFLogxK