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Materials Science and Engineering A 485 (2008) 403–408 Effect of pulse magnetic field on microstructure of austenitic stainless steel during directional solidification Changjiang Song a , Qiushu Li a,b , Haibin Li a,b , Qijie Zhai a,∗ a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China b Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China Received 22 June 2007; received in revised form 31 July 2007; accepted 31 July 2007 Abstract Using directional solidification via zone melting, we investigated the effect of axial pulse magnetic field on microstructure and inter- face morphology of austenitic stainless steel over a wide range of growth rate (from planar to dendritic growth mode). Experimental results show that during directional solidification, applications of pulse magnetic field destabilize the interface morphology, i.e. it promotes planar–cellular–dendritic–cellular transition of growth mode under the same conditions. Analysis reveals that freezing rate oscillations caused by the pulse magnetic field may be responsible for this phenomenon. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Pulse magnetic field; Directional solidification; Austenitic stainless steel; Electromagnetic force 1. Introduction 2. Experiments Applications of current and magnetic field to material pro- The setup used in this work was schematically shown in cessing, so-called electromagnetic processing of material (EPM) Fig. 1, which mainly consists of generator of pulse magnetic has been widely studied i