In order to better understand the detachment mechanism of secondary dendrite arm during peritectic solidification, the detachment of secondary dendrite arm from the primary dendrite arms in directionally solidified Sn-36at.%Ni peritectic alloys is investigated at different deceleration rates. Extensive detachment of secondary dendrite arms from primary stem is observed below peritectic reaction...

The article deals with measurements of linear changes of castings from foliated graphite cast iron and Al-alloys during their solidification. For this purpose the measuring apparatus, which applies a dilatometer of Polish provenience, was built up. Dilatation curves of graphite cast iron and Al-alloys were acquired during the casting process. In the case of Al-alloys the influence of chemical c...

     Heat transfer mechanisms and the solidification process are simulated for a continuous casting machine and the geometric shape of the liquid pool is predicted considering different conditions. A heat transfer and solidification model is described for the continuous casting of steel slabs. The model has been established on the basis of the technical conditions of the slab caster in the con...

R. Zagórski, S. Golak – Silesian University of Technical, Department of Management and Computer Science, Katowice, Poland The paper deals with computer simulation of gravity casting of the metal matrix composites reinforced with ceramics (MMC) into sand mold . The subject of our int erest is aluminum matrix c omposite (AlMMC) reinforced with c eramic particles i.e. silicon carbide SiC and glass...

-A linear perturbation method is used to examine the stability of a unidirectional solidification problem in which a liquid, initially at the melting temperature, becomes solidified by heat transfer across a pressure-dependent thermal contact resistance to a plane mold. The contact pressure will be influenced by thermal distortion in response to the instantaneous temperature field in the solidi...

Gao and Sonin (1994) have proposed a method for rapid prototyping and microfabrication by precise deposition and solidification of molten microdrops. Objects can be fabricated by a drop-on-demand, computer-controlled droplet generator. To understand the fundamentals of droplet deposition and solidification, experiments have been conducted using microcrystalline wax droplets (Schiaffino and Soni...

Historically, metals are cut up and polished to see the structure and to infer how processing influences the evolution. We can now peer into a metal during processing without destroying it using proton radiography. Understanding the link between processing and structure is important because structure profoundly affects the properties of engineering materials. Synchrotron x-ray radiography has e...

The solidification process in a weld pool has been shown to have a considerable influence upon the properties of the resultant weld. It influences the development of microstructure (Edvardsson et al., 1976), and determines the distribution of alloying elements, and hence the homogeneity of the weld. Previous work on the cooling behaviour of welds (Garland and Kirkwood, 1974; Svensson et al., 19...

Electrospark deposition (ESD) was studied to investigate the possibility of forming non-equilibrium microstructures in Al alloy systems. The results have demonstrated that the level of supersaturation is system-dependent. The Al-10 wt% Mg system exhibited a complete supersaturation, while the Al-Si system had a supersaturation level reaching about 1wt%. The ESD process was also used to demonstr...

The solidification behavior of droplets as well as spray-deposit of Al-4.5 wt% Cu alloy is simulated by modeling based on heat flow analysis. The model incorporates droplet dynamics and their thermal states during atomization process. The resultant spray enthalpy is used to analyze heat flow during solidification of the spray deposit. The effect of process variables like atomization pressure, m...