电脉冲孕育处理对Al-5%Cu合金液态结构的影响.pdfVIP

Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 23(2013) 2792−2796 Effects of electric pulse modification on liquid structure of Al−5%Cu alloy Jian-zhong WANG1 1 1,2 1 1 , Jin-gang QI , Zuo-fu ZHAO , Hong-sheng GUO , Tao ZHAO 1. Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, China; 2. School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China Received 10 July 2012; accepted 27 November 2012 Abstract: The electric pulse modification (EP, EPM) of liquid metal is a novel method for grain refinement. The structure of EP-modified Al−5%Cu melt was characterized by high-temperature X-ray diffractometry. The results show that the Cu-containing Al clusters remarkably increase in the EP-modified melt, furthermore, these clusters in that case tend to contract due to the decrease of relevant atomic radius and the co-ordination number. This kind of liquid-phase structure leads to a more homogeneous Cu-rich phase distribution in the final solidification structure. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) tests indicate that the solidification super-cooling degree of the EP-modified liquid phase is 2.36 times that of the unmodified. These facts suggest that the atom cluster changes in EP-modified Al−5%Cu melt would disagree with that by EPM model previously proposed in liquid pure metal. Key words: electric pulse modification; Al−Cu melt; atomic cluster; liquid structure substitute for that in