Rapid Solidification Technology: An Engineering GuideRapid solidification processing results in increased strength, and fracture and fatigue resistance of alloys, with concurrent improvements in mechanical, physical and chemical properties. This volume provides a systematic examination of this technology, including metallurgical aspects, processing methods, alloy design, and applications. Each chapter was prepared by a specialist for this volume. The text is well illustrated with more than 400 micrographs and schematics. More than 75 tables provide important reference data. |
Contents
Mathematical Modeling of Rapid Solidification | 3 |
Rapid Solidification as a Moving Boundary Problem | 11 |
Process Modeling in Rapid Solidification | 44 |
Summary | 62 |
General Conclusions | 122 |
Rapid Solidification of IronNeodymiumBoron | 257 |
Overquenched Alloy | 269 |
Manufacturing of Rapidly Solidified FeNdB Magnetic | 281 |
Corrosion Behavior of Experimental Mg Alloys Made | 458 |
Engineering Mg Alloys Processed via Rapid Solidification | 465 |
Rapid Solidification of NickelBase Alloys | 489 |
Other Applications of Rapid Solidification Processing to | 523 |
Application of Rapid Solidification Technology | 529 |
Microstructures of Rapidly Solidified Niobium Alloys | 543 |
Consolidation and Secondary Processing | 553 |
References | 559 |
RS Magnet Fabrication | 287 |
References | 296 |
PowderProcessed PrecipitationHardened Aluminum Alloys | 372 |
DispersionStrengthened Alloys | 384 |
Applications of Rapidly Solidified Alloys | 395 |
198 | 406 |
Rapid Solidification of CopperBased Alloys | 409 |
Superconducting CopperBased RS Alloys | 426 |
91 | 431 |
Summary | 432 |
Microstructural Effects of Rapid Solidification | 574 |
Summary | 596 |
Rapid Solidification of Discontinuously Reinforced | 603 |
Rapid Solidification Processes | 609 |
Laminated Rapidly Solidified Composites | 618 |
Discontinuously Reinforced Metallic Systems | 675 |
Summary | 707 |
Index | 725 |
Common terms and phrases
aluminum alloys amorphous annealing applications behavior carbide casting coercivity composition consolidation cooling rate copper alloys corrosion crystalline crystallization degassing dendritic density diameter dispersion Dispersion Strengthened dispersoids droplets ductility effect energy Equation equilibrium eutectic extruded powder fatigue Fe-Nd-B flow formation gas atomization grain boundaries grain growth heat treatment improved increase ingot interface intermetallic iron-base alloys Journal of Materials liquid magnetic Materials Science matrix mechanical properties mechanically alloyed melt spinning metal matrix composites metastable methods microstructure N. J. Grant niobium nucleation oxide oxygen parameters phase Powder Metallurgy precipitates produced quenching rapid solidification rapid solidification processing Rapidly Solidified Materials ratio reinforcement resistance ribbon segregation shown in Figure shows solid solution solidification rate solubility splat spray deposition stability stress structure substrate superalloys surface Table techniques temperature thermal tion titanium Type 304 SS undercooling velocity volume fraction yield strength