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THE NUCLEATION OF HIGHLY UNDERCOOLED Ni-Ni_3Si ALLOY CLOSED TO EUTECTIC COMPOSITION |
XI Zengzhe; YANG Gencang; LU Yili; ZHOU Yaohe (State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xi'an 710072) |
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XI Zengzhe; YANG Gencang; LU Yili; ZHOU Yaohe (State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing; Northwestern Polytechnical University; Xi'an 710072). THE NUCLEATION OF HIGHLY UNDERCOOLED Ni-Ni_3Si ALLOY CLOSED TO EUTECTIC COMPOSITION. Acta Metall Sin, 1998, 34(5): 511-516.
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Abstract The micro-denucleation technique of bulk melt was applied to Ni-Ni3Si alloy system. In two composition ranges of Ni-(6.07 - 19.7)%Si and Ni-(20.5 - 22)%Si, the alloys were undercooled up to the highest undercooling of 344 and 265 K respectively. The highest undercooling could be held for 20 melting-superheating-cooling circles. The experimental results indicated that, during the solidification of the alloys with compositions closed to the eutectic composition in Ni-Ni3Si alloy system, Ni3Si was always nucleated heterogeneously ahead of α(Ni) phase. The catalytic factors f(θ) of Ni3Si and α(Ni) were 0.069 and 0.28 respectively,calculated with the experimental data and the kinetic model of heterogeneous surface nucleation.The temperature vs composition curve with the same nucleation rate for Ni3Si and α(Ni) lay on the left side of eutectic point completely, which indicated that in the undercooled melts closed to the eutectic composition the nucleation of faceted Ni3Si phase was easier than that of α(Ni)phase.
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Received: 18 May 1998
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