Real time investigation of the grain refinement dynamics in zinc alloy by synchrotron microradiography

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 630, Issue , 2015, Pages 60-67

  Chen, Fei ^a   Mao, Feng ^a   Xuan, Zhenjing ^a   Yan, Guangyuan ^a   Han, Jingyu ^a   Wang, Tongmin ^a   Cao, Zhiqiang ^a   Fu, Yanan ^b   Xiao, Tiqiao ^b  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dendrite fragmentation; Kinetics; Nucleation; Synchrotron radiation; TiB2; ZA27

Indexed keywords

ALLOYS; ENZYME KINETICS; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GROWTH KINETICS; NUCLEATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; ZINC; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC REFINING;

AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; DENDRITE FRAGMENTATIONS; GRAIN NUCLEATION; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; REAL TIME OBSERVATION; TIB2; TITANIUM DIBORIDE; ZA27;

GRAIN REFINEMENT;

EID: 84921629096     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2015.01.021     Document Type: Article

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