Denucleation and high undercooling of Ni-32.5%Sn eutectic alloy

Bingbo Wei, Gencang Yang, Yaohe Zhou

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Abstract

Undercoolings up to 397 K (0.283 TE) have been obtained for Ni-32.5%Sn eutectic alloy melted by superheating-cooling cycles and denucleating with inorganic glasses. The predominant dissipation of heat for highly undercooled alloy melt is through radiation. An approximate method is consequently derived to calculate its mean specific heat from measured cooling curves. With the aid of high speed cinematography, it is revealed that the surface or interface heterogeneous nucleation takes place in preference to homogeneous nucleation even though the undercooling has exceeded 0.2 TE.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)115-120
Number of pages6
JournalActa Metallurgica Sinica Series B, Process Metallurgy & Miscellaneous
Volume4
Issue number2
StatePublished - Apr 1991

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