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Microstructure development during rapid alloy solidification

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Kaihua Ji
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Amy J. Clarke
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Joseph T. McKeown
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Alain Karma *
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Abstract

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Solidification processing of structural alloys can take place over an extremely wide range of solid-liquid interface velocities spanning six orders of magnitude, from the low-velocity constitutional supercooling limit of microns/s to the high-velocity absolute stability limit of m/s. In between these two limits, the solid-liquid interface is morphologically unstable and typically forms cellular-dendritic microstructures, but also other microstructures that remain elusive. Rapid developments in additive manufacturing have renewed the interest in modeling the high-velocity range, where approximate analytical theories provide limited predictions. In this article, we discuss recent advances in phase-field modeling of rapid solidification of metallic alloys, including a brief description of state-of-the-art experiments used for model validation. We describe how phase-field models can cope with the dual challenge of carrying out simulations on experimentally relevant length- and time scales and incorporating nonequilibrium effects at the solid-liquid interface that become dominant at rapid rates. We present selected results, illustrating how phase-field simulations have yielded unprecedented insights into high-velocity interface dynamics, shedding new light on both the absolute stability limit and the formation of banded microstructures that are a hallmark of rapid alloy solidification near this limit. We also discuss state-of-the-art experiments used to validate those insights.
Keywords:
Rapid solidification
Simulation
Microstructure
Additive manufacturing
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

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MRS Bulletin cover
MRS Bulletin
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4.9
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5.3K
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9.5K

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Northeastern University
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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6.0K
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united states department of energy (doe)
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Citations: 246
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