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METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 42A, Issue 10, Pages 3150-3159Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s11661-011-0738-4
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- Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [PNK2590] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The evolution of gamma/gamma' eutectic during the solidification of Ni-base superalloys CMSX-10 and CMSX-4 was investigated over a wide range of cooling rates. The microsegregation behavior during solidification was also quantitatively examined to clarify the influence of elemental segregation on the evolution of gamma/gamma' eutectic. In the cooling rate ranges investigated (0.9 to 138.4 K/min (0.9 to 138.4 A degrees C/min)), the gamma/gamma' eutectic fraction in CMSX-10 was found to be more than 2 times higher than that in CMSX-4 at a given cooling rate. However, the dependence of the gamma/gamma' eutectic fraction on the cooling rate in both alloys showed a similar tendency; i.e., the gamma/gamma' eutectic fraction increased with increasing the cooling rate and then exhibited a maximum plateau at and above the certain critical cooling rate in both alloys. This critical cooling rate was found to be dependent on the alloy composition and was estimated to be about 12 K/min (12 A degrees C/min) and 25 K/min (25 A degrees C/min) for CMSX-10 and CMSX-4, respectively. The calculated solid compositions based on the modified Scheil model revealed that even a small compositional difference of total gamma' forming elements in the initial composition of the alloy can play a significant role in the as-cast eutectic fraction during the solidification of Ni-base superalloys. The evolution of the gamma/gamma' eutectic fraction with respect to the cooling rate could be rationalized by taking into account the effects of back-diffusion in solid and dendrite arm coarsening on decreasing the extent of microsegregation.
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