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Materials Letters 161 (2015) 595–600 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials Letters journal homepage: /locate/matlet Effect of a transverse magnetic field on the growth of equiaxed grains during directional solidification Xi Li a,b,n, Jiang Wang a, Dafan Du a, Yikun Zhang a, Yves Fautrelle b, Henri Nguyen-Thi c, Annie Gagnoud b, Zhongming Ren a, Rene Moreau b a State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steels, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, PR China b SIMAP-EPM-Madylam/G-INP/CNRS, PHELMA, BP 75, 38402 St Martin d ’Heres Cedex, France c Aix Marseille University, Campus Saint-Jerome, Case 142, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The effect of a transverse magnetic field on the growth of equiaxed grains during directional solidifi- Received 7 July 2015 cation of Al-10wt% Cu alloys was investigated experimentally and numerically. The experimental results Received in revised form show that the magnetic field has a great influence on the size and distribution of equiaxed grains. Indeed, 3 September 2015 the magnetic field causes refined and coarsen equiaxed grains to distribute on the both sides of the Accepted 6 September 2015 sample, respectively. In-situ synchrotron X-ray imaging shows that a transverse magnetic field induced Available online 10 September 2015 some force which can act on equiaxed grains and cause the movement of