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Effect of flow, heat transfer and magnetic energy on the grain refinement of 7A04 alloy under electromagnetic pulse

  • Qingwei Bai , Yonglin Ma , Shuqing Xing , Xinyu Bao , Yanfei Feng , Wenxia Yu and Xiaolan Kang
Published/Copyright: November 25, 2017
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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 108 Issue 12

Abstract

In this paper, a transient numerical simulation method was used to analyze the direct chill casting process of 7A04 alloy under electromagnetic pulse treatment. The distribution and evolution of the electromagnetic force, fluid and thermal fields were studied to determine their effect on the solidification characteristics of alloy ingots. A modified nucleation theory for the refinement of grain size was presented considering the effect of electromagnetic energy on the critical Gibbs free energy ΔG* of the unity, which was verified by the corresponding experiments. The results showed that the swirl rings of the axial section in the melt were restrained and a lower temperature gradient was formed in the radial section when the magnetic flux intensity was increased. Under these conditions for nucleation, the grain refinement could be explained by the electromagnetic pulse energy that reduced the energy barrier and improved the nucleation rate, either heterogeneous nucleation or homogeneous nucleation.

Keywords: Grain refinement; Finite element method; Electromagnetic energy; Heterogeneous nucleation; Energy barrier
*Correspondence address, Prof. Yonglin Ma, School of Material and Metallurgy, Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology, No. 7 Arding Street, Baotou, ZIP: 014010, P. R. China, Tel.: +8615947629690, E-mail:

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Received: 2017-03-24
Accepted: 2017-08-08
Published Online: 2017-11-25
Published in Print: 2017-12-08

© 2017, Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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Keywords for this article
Grain refinement; Finite element method; Electromagnetic energy; Heterogeneous nucleation; Energy barrier

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