Influencia de parametros termicos de solidificação na transição colunar/equiaxial

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

The macroestructure of cast ingots can be characterized by either a completely columnar structure or an equiaxed structure, depending on alloy composition and solidification conditions. A more complex structure, typical of solidification in molds of high heat diffusivity, like chill and cooled molds, both structural forms. This mixed mode of solidification occurs when equiaxed grains can nucleate and grow ahead of the columnar front provoking the columnar to equiaxed transition. The prediction of such transition is of great interest for the evaluation and design of the mechanical properties of casting products. On the other hand, the anisotropy of mechanical properties, typical of columnar structures, enables technological applications of great importance like growing of blades for jet engmes. Experiments are conducted to analyze the columnar to equiaxed transition (CET) during the upward unsteady state directional solidification of Al-Cu and Sn-Pb alloys, under different conditions of superheat and heat transfer efficiencies at the metal/mold interface. A combined theoretical and experimental approach is developed to quantitatively determine the solidification thermal parameters: transient heat transfer coefficients, tip growth rates, thermal gradients and cooling rates. A numerical procedure combined with experimental results does not give support to CET criteria based either on tip growth rate or on temperature gradients at the dendrite tips. Rather, the analysis has indicated that a more convenient criterion should encompass both thermal parameters through the tip cooling rate. The columnar growth is expected to prevail throughout the casting for a tip cooling rate higher than a critical value, which depends only on the alloy system and observed to be about 0.2 K/s, for Al-Cu alloys and 0.014 K/s, for Sn-Pb alloys in this investigation. The effects of solidification parameters like melt superheat, solute concentration and metal/mold heat transfer coefficient on the CET position are also investigated

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solidificação materiais - propriedades mecanicas resfriamento ligas de aliminio-cobre

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