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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 893, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162318
Keywords
Intermetallic compounds (IMCs); EBSD; Aluminium alloys; Solidification
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- China Scholarship Council (CSC) via an Imperial-CSC scholarship [201604100104]
- UK EPSRC Future LiME Hub [EP/N007638/1]
- EPSRC [EP/N007638/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The study investigates how different twin types and twin variants affect the growth morphology during solidification in primary Al45Cr7 and Al13Fe4 intermetallic compounds (IMCs). The number of twin variants increased with cooling rate, and cyclic twinning resulted in different growth morphologies depending on the twin variants present.
Twinned crystal growth is studied in primary Al45Cr7 and Al13Fe4 intermetallic compounds (IMCs) to explore how different twin types and twin variants affect the growth morphology during solidification. In both IMCs, the number of twin variants increased as the cooling rate increased and, by similar to 5 K/s, both IMCs formed cyclic twins with combined icosahedral (Al45Cr7) or decagonal (Al13Fe4) pseudosymmetry. The growth morphology depended on which twin variants were present. When all twin domains shared a common direction that was a rod growth direction in single crystals, twinning did not prevent crystals from growing as rods. This was the case for both IMCs at slow cooling rate and Al13Fe4 at all cooling rates. Cyclic twinning of Al13Fe4 generated many re-entrant corners but resulted in only a modest reduction in rod aspect ratio. In contrast, when twin domains in Al45Cr7 had common directions along multiple pseudo-i(2) axes, crystal growth transitioned from rod-like to a near-equiaxed morphology. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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