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Tailored solidification microstructures for innovative use of high-density materials in lightweight products

One approach is to tailor the solidification microstructures of lightweight components using dense materials. This study examines the microstructures and mechanical properties of near eutectic Al-Cu alloys under different thermal histories, covering both h ...

2024

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

Numerical Model of Rapidly Solidified Droplets of Al-33 Wt Pct Cu Eutectic Growth

Michel Rappaz, Jonas Valloton

Rapid solidification of Al-Cu droplets of eutectic composition was carried out using Impulse Atomization (a type of drop tube). Two distinct morphologies were observed: an irregular undulated eutectic assumed to form during recalescence, followed by a regu ...

SPRINGER2022

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

Influence of Minor Cr-Additions to the Growth of Columnar Dendrites in Al-Zn Alloys: Influence of Icosahedral Short Range Order in the Liquid

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

The effect of minute Cr additions on dendritic growth directions in Al-20 wt pct Zn alloy has been investigated. As first evidenced by Gonzales and Rappaz (Metall Mater Trans A 37:2797-2806, 2006) Al-Zn alloys exhibit a Dendrite Orientation Transition (DOT ...

SPRINGER2020

Solidification of Metallic Alloys: Does the Structure of the Liquid Matter?

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

In 1952, Frank (Proc R Soc Lond Ser-Math Phys Sci 215:43-46, 1952) already postulated that Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) of atoms in the liquid could possibly explain the large nucleation undercoolings measured in metallic alloys by Turnbull and Fis ...

SPRINGER2020

Does MCWASP still follow Moore's law? Forty years of advances in microstructure modeling

Michel Rappaz

Over the past forty years, the series of MCWASP conferences has been the witness of the fantastic developments in the field of modeling of welding and solidification processes. This has been made possible thanks to the exponential increase in computing pow ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Influence of Minor Cr Additions on Crystal Growth in Rapidly Solidified Al-20Zn Alloys

Michel Rappaz

It has been discovered quite recently that Icosahedral Short-Range Order (ISRO) of atoms in the liquid phase of metallic alloys surrounding some trace elements added to the melt can influence both the nucleation and growth of the primary phase. In this wor ...

2020

Comment on "Formation of twin boundaries in commercial purity aluminum with addition of Ti refiner" by Zhongwei Chen, Jianping Gao, Kang Yan

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Influence of Ir Additions and Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) on Nucleation and Growth Kinetics in Au-20.5Wt Pct Cu-4.5Wt PctAg Alloy

Michel Rappaz

Based on detailed EBSD analyses, Kurtuldu et al. (Acta Mater. 70:240-248, 2014) have explained the grain refinement of Au-12.5 wt pctCu-12.5 wt pctAg (yellow gold) by the addition of minute amounts of Ir in terms of icosahedral quasicrystal (iQC)-mediated ...

SPRINGER2019