Solidification orientation relationships between Al3Ti and TiB2
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Author(s)
Cui, Y
King, DJM
Horsfield, AP
Gourlay, CM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Orientation relationships (ORs) can form during solidification by a variety of mechanisms that are often difficult to distinguish after solidification. Here we study three ORs formed by the nucleation of Al3Ti on TiB2, and by the pushing and engulfment of TiB2 by growing Al3Ti facets in hyperperitectic Al-rich melts. The nucleation OR is identified by growing a relatively large TiB2 crystal, solidifying multiple small Al3Ti crystals on one (0001) facet of TiB2, and measuring the resulting OR by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Pushing and engulfment ORs are investigated by statistical analysis of EBSD measurements, density functional theory (DFT) calculations of interface energies, and imaging of cross-sections of TiB2 particles being pushed and engulfed by Al3Ti facets. It is shown that the lowest energy OR is formed by nucleation as well as by pushing/engulfment. The higher energy ORs, formed by pushing and engulfment, correspond to local interfacial energy minima and can be explained by rotation of TiB2 particles on Al3Ti facets during pushing.
Date Issued
2020-03
Date Acceptance
2019-12-04
Citation
Acta Materialia, 2020, 186, pp.149-161
ISSN
1359-6454
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
149
End Page
161
Journal / Book Title
Acta Materialia
Volume
186
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645419308420?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
EP/M002241/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering
Materials Science
Intermetallic compounds (IMCs)
Crystallographic orientation
EBSD
Density functional theory (DFT)
Aluminium alloys
GRAIN-REFINEMENT
PARTICLE ENGULFMENT
ALUMINUM-ALLOYS
HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION
SOLIDIFYING INTERFACES
INOCULANT PARTICLES
LATTICE-CONSTANTS
CRITICAL VELOCITY
1ST-PRINCIPLES
MECHANISM
Materials
0204 Condensed Matter Physics
0912 Materials Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-12-19