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Competitions incorporated in rapid solidification of the bulk undercooled eutectic Ni78.6Si21.4 alloy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Feng Liu ,
Yuzeng Chen ,
Gencang Yang ,
Yiping Lu ,
Zheng Chen  and
Yaohe Zhou
Feng Liu*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
Yuzeng Chen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
Gencang Yang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
Yiping Lu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
Zheng Chen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
Yaohe Zhou
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, People’s Republic of China
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: liufeng@nwpu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Adopting glass fluxing and cyclic superheating, high undercooling up to ∼550 K was achieved in bulk eutectic Ni78.6Si21.4 alloy melt. With increasing undercooling, the as-solidified microstructure shows an interesting evolution, i.e., regular lamellar eutectic, coarse directional dendrite, quasi-spherical dendritic colony, fine directional dendrite, fine quasi-spherical dendritic colony, and superfine anomalous eutectic. In combination with different theories for nucleation and growth, the microstructure evolution was analyzed and described using competitions incorporated in rapid solidification of the bulk undercooled eutectic Ni78.6Si21.4 alloy. For undercooling below and above 180 K, Ni3Si, and α-Ni are primarily solidified, respectively. This phase selection can be ascribed to competitive nucleation. As undercooling increases, a transition of the prevalent nucleation mode from site saturation to continuous nucleation was interpreted in terms of competition of nucleation mode. Accordingly, the superfine anomalous eutectic is obtained, due to the substantially increased continuous nucleation rate, i.e., grain refinement occurring at high undercooling (e.g., ∼550 K).

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Nucleation & growthMicrostructureCrystal growth
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 22 , Issue 10 , October 2007 , pp. 2953 - 2963
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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