Diffusion coefficient of the Al based melt in the microstructure simulation
L. X. LI1,2,*
,
X. B. BU1,2,
L. Q. ZHANG1,2,
B. W. ZHU1,2,
R. XU1,2,
S. P. WANG1,2
Affiliation
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body , Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China
- College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082
Abstract
Numerical simulation of solidification grain structure is an effective alternative means in the prediction and controlling of the microstructure of castings other than actual casting experiment. The liquid phase diffusion coefficient was one of the most
important factors in the microstructure simulation, and affected the grain morphology. The liquid phase diffusion coefficient
was usually assumed to a constant in a wide variety of alloys. In the present paper, the diffusion coefficients of Al based
melts were calculated by the Miedema model, Extended Miedema model and Eyring model in different temperatures. In
addition, a cellular automaton finite element method was used to predict the solidification structure of an Al 2%Cu alloy and
Al 9.75%Si 2%Cu alloy. Comparing the simulation results with the diffusion constant, the simulated results with calculated
diffusion coefficient were in accord with the experimental ones well, and could accurately reflect the grains distribution,
proportion, size of equiaxed and columnar grains..
Keywords
Miedema model, Eying model, Diffusion coefficient, Microstructure.
Citation
L. X. LI, X. B. BU, L. Q. ZHANG, B. W. ZHU, R. XU, S. P. WANG, Diffusion coefficient of the Al based melt in the microstructure simulation, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 7, 7-8, July-August 2013, pp.597-603 (2013).
Submitted at: July 21, 2012
Accepted at: July 11, 2013