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Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys
Directional solidification experiment was carried out with Al-Bi-Sn immiscible alloy under microgravity environment onboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory of China. Sample with a well-dispersed microstructure was obtained by properly designing the experimental scheme, the matrix shows equiaxed morp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-019-0086-z |
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author | Jiang, Hongxiang Li, Shixin Zhang, Lili He, Jie Zhao, Jiuzhou |
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description | Directional solidification experiment was carried out with Al-Bi-Sn immiscible alloy under microgravity environment onboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory of China. Sample with a well-dispersed microstructure was obtained by properly designing the experimental scheme, the matrix shows equiaxed morphology, and there is no visible gas cavity or pinhole in the sample. In contrast, the reference samples solidified on earth show phase-segregated structure and contain some gas cavities or pinholes. The grain morphology of the terrestrial sample depends on the solidification direction, it is equiaxed when the sample ampoule was withdrawn against the gravity direction, while it is columnar when the sample ampoule was withdrawn along the gravity direction. The solidification process and affecting mechanisms of microgravity on the microstructure formation are discussed. The results indicate that the microgravity conditions can effectively diminish the convective flow of the melt and the Stokes motions of the minority phase droplets and gas bubbles, which are helpful for suppressing the occurrence of macro-segregation and preventing the formation of porosity. The results also demonstrate that the microgravity conditions favor the detachment between the melt and the wall of crucible, thus increasing the nucleation undercooling of α-Al nuclei and promoting the formation of equiaxed grain. |
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spelling | pubmed-68612552019-11-21 Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys Jiang, Hongxiang Li, Shixin Zhang, Lili He, Jie Zhao, Jiuzhou NPJ Microgravity Article Directional solidification experiment was carried out with Al-Bi-Sn immiscible alloy under microgravity environment onboard the Tiangong 2 space laboratory of China. Sample with a well-dispersed microstructure was obtained by properly designing the experimental scheme, the matrix shows equiaxed morphology, and there is no visible gas cavity or pinhole in the sample. In contrast, the reference samples solidified on earth show phase-segregated structure and contain some gas cavities or pinholes. The grain morphology of the terrestrial sample depends on the solidification direction, it is equiaxed when the sample ampoule was withdrawn against the gravity direction, while it is columnar when the sample ampoule was withdrawn along the gravity direction. The solidification process and affecting mechanisms of microgravity on the microstructure formation are discussed. The results indicate that the microgravity conditions can effectively diminish the convective flow of the melt and the Stokes motions of the minority phase droplets and gas bubbles, which are helpful for suppressing the occurrence of macro-segregation and preventing the formation of porosity. The results also demonstrate that the microgravity conditions favor the detachment between the melt and the wall of crucible, thus increasing the nucleation undercooling of α-Al nuclei and promoting the formation of equiaxed grain. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6861255/ /pubmed/31754626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-019-0086-z Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Jiang, Hongxiang Li, Shixin Zhang, Lili He, Jie Zhao, Jiuzhou Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title | Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title_full | Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title_fullStr | Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title_short | Effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
title_sort | effect of microgravity on the solidification of aluminum–bismuth–tin immiscible alloys |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6861255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41526-019-0086-z |
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