STUDY OF THE SOLIDIFICATION OF Ni-Ag MONOTECTIC ALLOY

  • ZHAO Lei ZHAO Jiuzhou
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  • Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016

Received date: 2012-07-12

  Revised date: 2012-08-17

  Online published: 2012-11-11

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.u0837601, 51071159 and 51031003)

Abstract

The Ni-Ag alloy has good mechanical properties, high corrosion resistance and electrical conductivity. It is an excellent candidate to be used in many high-tech fields of aerospace, energy resource and chemical engineering etc. This alloy, however, is a typical monotectic system. Generally, the liquid--liquid phase transformation leads to the formation of a solidification microstructure with serious phase segregation. The manufacturing of this alloy is thus extremely difficult. Injection casting has already been carried out with the Ni-Ag monotectic alloy. The sample with composite microstructure, in which Ag-rich particles dispersed homogeneously in Ni matrix has been obtained. A model describing the microstructure evolution during injection casting of the Ni-Ag monotectic alloy has been proposed. The process of microstructure formation has been simulated and discussed in details. The results indicate that the Ostwald coarsening of Ag-rich droplets is very weak during cooling in miscibility gap under injection casting cooling conditions. The dispersivity of the primary Ag--rich phase is controlled by the nucleation of Ag-rich droplets during the liquid-liquid transformation. The number density ($N$) and average radius (<R>) of primary Ag--rich particles depend exponentially on the cooling rate of the alloy during the nucleation of Ag-rich droplets ($\dot{T}_{\rm Nuc}$) according to $N\propto\dot{T}_{\rm Nuc}^{1.8}$ and $\langle R\rangle\propto\dot{T}_{\rm Nuc}^{-0.6}$.

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ZHAO Lei ZHAO Jiuzhou . STUDY OF THE SOLIDIFICATION OF Ni-Ag MONOTECTIC ALLOY[J]. Acta Metall Sin, 2012 , 48(11) : 1381 -1386 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1037.2012.00422

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