Rapid cooling effect during solidification on macro- and micro-segregation of as-cast Mg–Gd alloy

Progress in Natural Science: Materials International

Guoqiang You¹  Guohua Wu²  Mahmoud Ebrahimi³  Jingchuan Luo⁴  Xin Tong⁵ 

[1] College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, China;Corresponding author.;National Engineering Research Center for Magnesium Alloys, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China;College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, China;National Engineering Research Center of Light Alloy Net Forming and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China;

关键词: As-cast Mg–Gd alloy;    Segregation;    Rapid cooling;    Solidification;    Sedimentation;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The high performance of as-cast Mg-RE alloys is always related to their high RE additions. However, RE elements can be readily segregated in Mg alloys and the segregation becomes more significant with the increasing RE content. In this research, the effect of cooling rate on the macro- and micro-segregation in the as-cast Mg–8Gd alloy was studied. The Gd content at the bottom of the fabricated ingot with the cooling rate of 4.6–6.9 ​°C/s was ~1.7 times of that at the top and coarse eutectics as well as some non-equilibrium phases of α-Gd, MgGd, Mg2Gd were distributed along the grain boundaries. The formation mechanisms of the specific gravity segregation and grain boundary segregation were also proposed. Upon the application of the water-cooled copper mold with the cooling rate of 27–200 ​°C/s, only fine Mg5Gd and some nanoscale metastable β1 and β′ phases were found to disperse uniformly in the grain interior, thus the homogeneity of the composition, microstructure, and performance within the whole ingot was considerably improved. It is expected that these results will facilitate the processing design for the fabrication of the highly-homogenized Mg-RE alloy castings.

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