Revealing dendritic pattern formation in Ni, Fe and Co alloys using synchrotron tomography

Acta Materialia

Volumn 128, Issue , 2017, Pages 241-248

  Azeem, M A ^a,b   Lee, P D ^a,b   Phillion, A B ^c   Karagadde, S ^a,d   Rockett, P ^a   Atwood, R C ^e   Courtois, L ^a,b   Rahman, K M ^f   Dye, D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^e DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4D imaging; Dendritic microstructures; Interfacial patterns; Superalloys; Synchrotron tomography

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; NICKEL; SUPERALLOYS; TOMOGRAPHY;

4D IMAGING; DENDRITIC MICROSTRUCTURE; ENCAPSULATION SYSTEMS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENT; INTERFACIAL PATTERNS; MICROSTRUCTURAL PATTERNS; SOLID-PHASE TRANSFORMATION; SYNCHROTRON TOMOGRAPHY;

COBALT ALLOYS;

EID: 85013141167     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.02.022     Document Type: Article

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