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Rapidly Solidified Microstructures in a Ti-22 Wt% Fe Alloy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

W. A. Baeslack III
Affiliation:
Department of Welding Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
L. Weeter
Affiliation:
Department of Welding Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
S. Krishnamurthy
Affiliation:
Materials Laboratory/Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, WPAFB OH 45433
P. Smith
Affiliation:
Materials Laboratory/Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, WPAFB OH 45433
F. H. Froes
Affiliation:
Materials Laboratory/Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories, WPAFB OH 45433
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Abstract

Rapidly-solidified microstructures were produced in aTi-22 wt% Fe alloy by laser surface melting, melt extraction, melt spinning and splat cooling. Increased cooling rates during solidification promoted increasingly finer beta grain sizes ranging from approximately 75 microns in a laser melt to 0.5 to 2.0 microns for splats. Beta grain morphologiesw ere generally equiaxed, although epitaxially-nucleated columnar grains were observed at the pool-substrate interface for laser melts. Fitting of the equiaxed beta grain size data to a λ0 = Boε−n0 power relationship for homogenous nucleation and isotropic growth resulted in Bo = 3 × 104 and no = 0.62. The refinement of dendrite structure with increasing cooling rate was also documented for laser melts. Dendrite spacing versus cooling rate data were fitted to a similar general power relationship and resulted in B1 = 45 and n1 = 0.34.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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