Publications by Aurèle Mariaux

Influence of anisotropy on heterogeneous nucleation

Heterogeneous nucleation is governed by the interplay of interfacial energies between a substrate, a solid and a liquid. Although the intensity of these energies can strongly change with the orientation of the nucleus for anisotropic media, this parameter ...

Elsevier2011

Texture Formation in Hot-Dip Galvanized Coatings : Nucleation and Growth of Anisotropic Grains in a Confined Geometry

Aurèle Mariaux

Continuous hot-dip galvanization is a process during which steel sheets are coated with a layer of Zn-Al alloy to protect them against corrosion. As the name indicates, this is achieved by dipping the preheated sheet into a bath of molten alloy. The sheet ...

EPFL2010

The influence of solid-liquid interfacial energy anisotropy on equilibrium shapes, nucleation, triple lines and growth morphologies

Michel Rappaz, Mario Alberto Salgado Ordorica, Jonathan Friedli, Aurèle Mariaux

The anisotropy of the solid-liquid interfacial energy plays a key role during the formation of as-solidified microstructures. Using the xi-vector formalism of Cahn and Hoffman, this contribution presents the effect that anisotropy has on the equilibrium sh ...

Elsevier2010

PHASE FIELD MODELING OF EQUILIBRIUM SHAPES AND GROWTH MORPHOLOGIES IN Al-Zn ALLOYS

Michel Rappaz, Jonathan Friedli, Aurèle Mariaux

The anisotropy of the solid-liquid interfacial energy, gamma(sl), plays a key role in the accurate prediction of growth morphologies in metallic alloys. This interfacial energy anisotropy can vary duo to alloy composition, especially when that of the pure ...

Minerals, Metals & Materials Soc, 184 Thorn Hill Rd, Warrendale, Pa 15086-7514 Usa2009

EBSD: a powerful microstructure analysis technique in the field of solidification

Michel Rappaz, Emmanuelle Boehm Courjault, Alain Jacot, Mario Alberto Salgado Ordorica, Aurèle Mariaux, Christoph Niederberger

This paper presents a few examples of the application of electron back-scatter diffraction (EBSD) to solidification problems. For directionally solidified Al-Zn samples, this technique could reveal the change in dendrite growth directions from < 100 > to < ...

2009

Modeling Nucleation and Growth of Zinc Grains in Hot-Dip Galvanized Coatings

Michel Rappaz, Aurèle Mariaux

Hot-dip galvanized Zn-0.2wt%Al coatings on steel sheets exhibit a strong basal texture ({0001} parallel to the sheet plane). Part of this texture call be explained by the faster growth of < 10 (1) over bar0 > dendrites as compared with < 0001 >, granting b ...

Minerals, Metals & Materials Soc, 184 Thorn Hill Rd, Warrendale, Pa 15086-7514 Usa2009