Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Abstract
An experimental study has been conducted to investigate the effects of grain transport on the columnar to equiaxed transition (CET) in dendritic alloy solidification. Using the aqueous ammonium chloride solution as a transparent model alloy, experiments were performed in a vertical test cell with cooling from the top, resulting in unidirectional columnar crystals growing downwards. Ahead of the columnar front, equiaxed nuclei were observed to originate mostly by fragmentation of the columnar dendrites in the presence of a thermally driven flow in the melt beneath the columnar mushy zone. Being heavier than the liquid, these fragments fall into the bulk melt where they may grow or remelt. The survived equiaxed crystals finally settle towards the floor and pile up to form an equiaxed bed. The CET occurs when the bottom equiaxed packed bed rises and eventually obstructs the columnar mushy zone growing from the upper surface. Therefore, the CET in the present configuration was predominantly controlled by the sedimentation of equiaxed crystals. A parametric study by varying initial concentration, cooling rate, and superheat was performed.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science
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