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Microstructure of Al-Cu Alloy in Rapid Solidification by CO_2 Laser

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06650832
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Metal making engineering
Research InstitutionNagaoka University of Technology

Principal Investigator

MIYATA Yasunori  Nagaoka Univ. of Tech., Dept. of Eng., Professor, 工学部, 教授 (50016177)

Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1995
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1995)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Keywordsrapid solidification / laser / absolute stability / alloy / dendrite / cellular structure / エネルギー吸収率 / 冷却速度 / ミクロ組織 / セル界面 / 絶対安定
Research Abstract

New microstructure of alloy is expected to be in rapid solidification, when the melt solidify in its growth rate close to the the absolute stability limit. This limiting growth rate is reached if the growth rate approaches to the speed of diffusion of the solute. The purpose of this work is to study the relation between the microstructure and solidification condition in rapid solidification of Al-Cu alloy.
Low solute Al-Cu alloy is used in this experiment. It makes easy to realize the absolute stability condition and it also makes easy to cbserve the microstructure, because low colute concentration will result larger microstructure of alloy. High power CO_2 laser (Max. 6KW) is used to melt and solidify rapidly, and rapid solidification with a few meter per second is realized. The temperature distribution in the melt is studied by numerical analysis MARC.In terms of this distribution the temperature gradient and the growth rate at the solid-liquid interface is obtained.
Cellular microstructure is found in Al-0.5 mol%Cu alloy, which is solidified with growth rate 1.7 m/sec. This growth rate is very close to the absolutely stable growth rate of this alloy, which is predicted to be 2.4m/sec by the pertubative theory. Other alloys with thjeir solute concentration 1.0 and 4.5mol%Cu alloy do not show cellular structure but dendritic microstructure. The diameter of the primary stem decreases with growth rate by power-1/2.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1995 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1994 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1994-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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