Microstructure of undercooled Pb-Sn alloys

Melt undercooling opens new solidification pathways for non-equilibrium phases and non-conventional microstructures. Several techniques, including the fluxing technique, have been developed in order to reduce nucleation sites and to produce high undercoolings for metals and alloys. In this work the fluxing technique was applied to Pb-25wt%Sn (hypoeutectic), Pb-61.9wt%Sn (eutectic) and Pb-90wt%Sn (hypereutectic) alloys to investigate the influence of the undercooling on the microstructure of these alloys. For the hypoeutectic alloy, an increasing of the undercooling (deltaTe) from 7 to 13 K resulted in interdendritic eutectic refinement. For the hypereutectic alloy, an increasing of undercooling from 8 to 16 K resulted in a reduction of the beta-Sn primary dendrites arm spacing from 50 m to 30 m. For the both hypoeutectic and eutectic alloys, an increasing of the undercooling resulted in an interdendritic eutectic with anomalous morphology. The results indicated that the critical eutectic undercooling, deltaTe*, that causes a transition from lamellar eutectic to anomalous eutectic in the Pb-Sn alloys, is around 6 K.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Castro,Walman Benício de, Maia,Manuel de Lucena, Kiminami,Claudio Shyinti, Bolfarini,Claudemiro
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	ABM, ABC, ABPol 2001
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392001000200007
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