Chen, S.; Jiang, H.; Zhao, J. The Influences of Micro-Alloying Element Sn and Magnetic Field on the Microstructure Evolution of Al–Bi Immiscible Alloys. Metals2023, 13, 1867.
Chen, S.; Jiang, H.; Zhao, J. The Influences of Micro-Alloying Element Sn and Magnetic Field on the Microstructure Evolution of Al–Bi Immiscible Alloys. Metals 2023, 13, 1867.
Chen, S.; Jiang, H.; Zhao, J. The Influences of Micro-Alloying Element Sn and Magnetic Field on the Microstructure Evolution of Al–Bi Immiscible Alloys. Metals2023, 13, 1867.
Chen, S.; Jiang, H.; Zhao, J. The Influences of Micro-Alloying Element Sn and Magnetic Field on the Microstructure Evolution of Al–Bi Immiscible Alloys. Metals 2023, 13, 1867.
Abstract
Directional solidification experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of micro-alloying element Sn and magnetic field on the solidification of Al-Bi immiscible alloys. Experimental results show that the size distribution of the dispersed particles in the low-speed solidified Al-3.4wt%Bi alloy presents two peaks, while it only shows one peak when solidified at a relatively high speed. The addition of Sn not only can enhance the nucleation rate and the number density of the Bi-rich droplets in the sample, but also decrease the Marangoni migration velocity and the axial resultant velocity of minority phase droplets in front of the solidification interface. Thereby it promotes the formation of Al-Bi alloys with a well-dispersed microstructure. A static magnetic with the strength of 0.2T increase the number density of the dispersed particles and decrease the average size and the size distribution width of the dispersed particles. Under the effect of Sn addition and static magnetic field, the average radius of the dispersed particles <R> and the solidification velocity V_0 satisfy <R>∝〖V_0〗^(-1/3) when the alloy was solidified at a relatively low velocity, <R> and V_0 satisfy <R>∝〖V_0〗^(-1/2) when the alloy is solidified at a high velocity.
Keywords
Alloying element; Magnetic field; Solidification; Microstructure evolution
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Metals, Alloys and Metallurgy
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