1. Dendrite growth and grain "coarsening" in an undercooled CoNi equiatomic alloy.
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Zhang, Jianbao, Zhang, Yachan, Zhang, Fan, Cui, Dexu, Zhao, Yiming, Wu, Hongxing, Wang, Xianzong, Zhou, Qing, and Wang, Haifeng
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DENDRITIC crystals , *GRAIN growth , *ALLOYS , *GRAIN refinement , *STUDENT records , *GRAIN size , *DENTAL metallurgy - Abstract
The CoNi equiatomic alloy was undercooled and spontaneously solidified using the glass fluxing method. The dendrite growth behaviors were recorded by a high-speed high-resolution camera. Three dendrite growth stages (i.e., the power law growth stage when undercooling Δ T <120 K, the plateau growth stage when 120 K<Δ T <135 K and the linear law growth stage when Δ T >135 K) were found and well predicted by a dendrite growth model. For the as-solidified microstructures, the average grain size increases with undercooling, indicating that unique grain "coarsening" instead of common spontaneous grain refinement occurs. Such a grain "coarsening" phenomenon was ascribed to stress accumulation upon rapid solidification. Furthermore, a plenty of sub-grains were observed within the abnormal coarse grains. From the electron back-scattering diffraction results, the angle difference between neighbouring sub-grains was less than 6°. The current work might be helpful for not only theoretically understanding dendrite growth but also practically controlling the non-equilibrium microstructures. • Rapid solidification of CoNi equiatomic alloy was studied using the glass fluxing method. • Three growth stages were observed and well predicted by the dendrite growth model. • Sub-grains within the coarse grains were identified by electron back-scattering diffraction. • A unique grain "coarsening" phenomenon for the as-solidified microstructures was reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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