SOLIDIFICACIÓN

APPLY TO MACROSCALE PROBLEM

Pure Metal Solidification

• Temperature remains
constant while grains
grow.

• Some metals undergo

allotropic transformation in
solid state.

• For example on cooling

bcc -iron changes to fcc
-iron at 1400 C, which
again to bcc -iron at 906
C.
Nucleation and Grain Growth

 Nucleation;
 Homogeneous nucleation: very pure metal, substantial
undercooling (0.2Tm)
 Heterogeneous nucleation: nucleation agents (5ºC
undercooling)
 Grain growth
 Planar: pure metal
 Dendritic: solid solution
 Grain size
 depends on number of nuclei and cooling rate.

Adiabatic
Cooling rate 0.4K/s, 0.6K/s
2 hours for each case
DATA GENERATION
Heyn’s interception mean of interception length is a
function of angle
measure
s1 (grain size): mean of
interception length for all angles
s2 (structure type): ratio of
smallest mean interception length
to largest mean interception length
For each point, extract information of (R, s1, s2)
For each point every 100 time step, extract
information of (T, fl).
Remember from which run case and which
position the data is generated. It will be useful to
give an idea what (s1, s2) means.
Nonequilibrium Solidification

Microsegregation or coring
Heat Treatment of Steel (TTT
Diagram)
 Summary
 Solidification process affects crystal structures
which in turn affect material properties.
 Single crystal materials behave very differently
than metal alloys.
 The effect of imperfections and grain size in
solid solutions.
 Heat treatment can modify material properties
by changing the crystal structure.