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A comparative study on the microstructure development in Fe50Cu50 alloy prepared using aerodynamic levitation process and W-wire held process

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? 2022 Elsevier B.V.The present lays emphasis on the effect of varying degrees of undercooling on the microstructure development of the Fe50Cu50 alloy system. A sufficiently high undercooling (>100 °C) was achieved using the aerodynamic levitation (ADL) technique whereas a W-wire holding method in the same ADL setups was employed to attain relatively low undercooling (87 °C) during solidification. In addition, solidification experiments were also performed without any undercooling in this alloy system. Thus, the effect of a wide range of undercooling on the phase separation and microstructural development of the Fe-Cu system was systematically investigated in this work. In a substantially undercooled ADL sample, a complete phase-separated micrograph was obtained, but in other situations, a discontinuous network of Cu in interconnected Fe dendritic areas was detected as determined by the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). X-ray diffraction (XRD) of the sample cross-section confirms that the phases present at the end of the solidification process are α-Fe and Cu, regardless of the degree of undercooling. In the instance of the ADL sample, the entrapment of Cu droplets in the inter-connected Fe dendritic area due to a combination of high undercooling and centrifugal force was detected using X-ray tomography, and the orientation distribution of the samples was determined using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD).

Aerodynamic levitation (ADL)Fe-Cu alloyImmiscible alloyPhase separationSolidificationUndercooling

Paliwal M.、Mishra S.、Sahoo D.、Srivastava A.

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology

Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology

2022

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

EISCI
ISSN:0925-8388
年,卷(期):2022.925
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