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Why is it So Difficult to Produce an Equiaxed Microstructure During Welding?

It is well established that the solidification microstructure has an important influence on the mechanical properties of a welded zone. This is especially true, when one considers cold cracking and hot tearing during the process. In the past, several autho ...

CRC Press2024

Fundamentals of Solidification 5th Fully Revised Edition

Michel Rappaz, Wilfried Kurz

Since the 4th 1998 edition, there have been numerous crucial advances to the modelling and the basic understanding of solidification phenomena, and with its linking to experimental results. These topics have been incorporated into this 5th Fully Revised Ed ...

Trans Tech Publications Ltd2023

Phase and microstructure selection in peritectic alloys under high G-V ratio

Wilfried Kurz, Stéphane Dobler

A new model for the case of a superposition of a phase transformation and a microstructure transition from columnar plane front to equiaxed dendritic growth for peritectic alloys is presented. This model is applied to Fe-Ni alloys where a phase transition ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Peritectic equilibrium in Fe-Co alloys

Wilfried Kurz

Recent results of directional solidification experiments with Fe-Co alloys were not consistent with the presently accepted peritectic phase diagram. Therefore, the Fe-rich part of this phase diagram was re-examined. High-temperature gradient plane front so ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Progress in modelling solidification microstructures in metals and alloys. Part II: dendrites from 2001 to 2018

Michel Rappaz, Wilfried Kurz

This is the first account of the history of modelling dendritic and cellular solidification. While Part I reviewed the progress up to the year 2000 [Kurz W, Fisher DJ, Trivedi R. Progress in modelling solidification microstructures in metals and alloys: de ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Microstructure Selection in Laser Remelted Fe-C-Si Alloys

Wilfried Kurz, Philippe Gilgien

Laser surface remelting at various velocities has been employed to study the selection of microstructures of high-purity Fe-C-Si alloys containing nominally 3.2 to 4.2 wt.% C and 1 to 3 wt.% Si. The microstructure of the remelted region consisted of metast ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Progress in modelling solidification microstructures in metals and alloys: dendrites and cells from 1700 to 2000

Wilfried Kurz

This is the first account of the history of our understanding of, and ability to model, solidification microstructures. Its objective is to retrace the scientific steps made, from the earliest observations of the eighteenth century to our present-day under ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

Solute trapping-free massive transformation at absolute stability

Alain Jacot, Wilfried Kurz

Directional transformation of a hypo-peritectic Fe–17.5 at.% Co alloy was studied. Two consecutive phase transformations—solidification (liquid to delta ferrite) and solid-state transformation (δ ferrite to γ austenite)—were observed and compared with theo ...

Elsevier2011

Solidification microstructures and solid-state parallels: Recent developments, future directions

Michel Rappaz, Wilfried Kurz

Rapid advances in atomistic and phase-field modeling techniques as well as new experiments have led to major progress in solidification science during the first years of this century. Here we review the most important findings in this technologically impor ...

Elsevier2009

About Initial Solidification In Continuous Casting Of Steel

Wilfried Kurz

High solidification velocities, high temperature gradients and strong melt flow characterize the first moments of solidification in a continuous caster. The beginning of shell growth in the meniscus area is determined by the local heat flow, the strength o ...

2008