1. High cooling rate cells, dendrites, microstructural spacings and microhardness in a directionally solidified Al–Mg–Si alloy
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Noé Cheung, Nathalie Mangelinck-Noël, Crystopher Brito, Guillaume Reinhart, Amauri Garcia, José E. Spinelli, Henri Nguyen-Thi, Department of manufacturing and materials engineering, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence ( IM2NP ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Université de Toulon ( UTLN ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Department of Materials Engineering, Federal University of Sao Carlos, UFSCar, Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence (IM2NP), Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Universidade Federal de São Carlos [São Carlos] (UFSCar)
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Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Metallurgy ,Alloy ,Metals and Alloys ,Analytical chemistry ,Intermetallic ,[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry ,Cooling rates ,engineering.material ,Microstructure ,Indentation hardness ,Solidification ,Cooling rate ,Hardness ,Mechanics of Materials ,[ CHIM.MATE ] Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry ,Unidirectional solidification ,Materials Chemistry ,engineering ,Dendritic / cellular transition - Abstract
International audience; Transient unidirectional solidification experiments have been carried out with an Al–3 wt%Mg–1 wt%Si alloy under cooling rates (T_ ) in the range 0.2–45 K/s. A reverse cells > dendrites transition is shown to occur with the high-cooling rate cellular region associated with T_ > 2 K/s and the dendritic region with T. < 0.8 K/s. Experimental growth laws correlating the cellular and dendritic spacings with the cooling rate are proposed. It is shown that the microhardness is directly influenced by both morphologies of the Al-rich matrix and by the relative fractions of Mg2Si and Fe bearing intermetallics that vary differently with the cooling rate.
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- 2015
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