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Trans. N on ferrou s Met . Soc. China 20(2010) s826- s831 Morphological evolution of non-dendritic microstructure during solidification under stirring LIN Xin(林 鑫) , TONG Lei-lei( 统雷雷), Z AO Li-ning(赵力宁) , WANG Li-lin(王理林), WANG Meng(王 猛) , UANG Wei-dong(黄卫东) State K ey Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi ’an 710072, China Received 15 March 2010; accepted 25 June 2010 Ab str act ：Morphological evolution of non-dendritic microstru cture during th e solidification of su ccinonitrile-5%water (SCN-5%Wat) tran sp arent alloy under mechanical stirring w as exp erimentally investigated. The in cub ation time for th e formation of n on -dendritic microstructures decreased rapidly and th e microstru cture was gradu ally refined with th e in crease of stirring rate and cooling rate. Wh en the stirring rate and cooling rate w ere low, the incubation time for th e formation of non-dendritic microstru ctures decreased obviou sly with th e increase of the melt undercooling. Wh en th e stirring rate was high , the effect of the melt undercooling on th e in cub ation time for the formation of non-dendritic microstructures was w eak. Th e morphology of primary microstructures had an imp ortant in flu ence on th e subsequ ent morphological evolution of these microstru ctures during th e isoth ermal h olding of th e melt with out stirring . It was found th at wh en there were dendrites in th e undercooled melt, the dendrites w ou ld b e dissolv ed and th e final microstructure wou ld b e replaced by th e re-nucleated globular cry stals if th e stirring time w as long enough. Key w or ds : n on -dendritic; globular crystal ; morph