Crystallography of solid-liquid interface and evolution of texture during directional solidification of Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe1.95 alloy

Palit, Mithun and Banumathy, S and Singh, AK and Pandian, S and Chattopadhyay, K (2011) Crystallography of solid-liquid interface and evolution of texture during directional solidification of Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe1.95 alloy. In: Intermetallics, 19 (3). pp. 357-368.

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Abstract

The effect of growth texture on the magnetostriction of ternary Tb0.3Dy0.7Fe1.95 was studied by conducting unidirectional solidification experiments using a zoning set-up. Detailed texture evolutions were studied using X-ray diffraction on samples obtained by varying growth rates from 18 to 72 cm/h, under a temperature gradient of 100 degrees C/cm. The estimated texture co-efficient and pole figures of the samples indicate that during the onset of the solidification, < 110 > and < 331 >/'rotated < 110 >' texture components nucleate and grow in all the samples. However, as the solidification progresses, < 112 > texture component becomes dominant at higher growth rate. This results in an improvement of magnetostriction from 1000 to 1300 microstrains for samples grown at growth rates of 18 and 72 cm/h respectively. The transition of preferred growth direction occurs through intermediate orientations < 123 >. An attempt has been made in this paper to explain the occurrence of different growth texture by considering the stability of growing interface, its planar packing fraction and atomic stacking sequence of several low index planes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Intermetallics
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Keywords:	Rare-earth intermetallics;Texture;Crystal growth;Phase interfaces;Microstructure
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2011 06:28
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2011 06:28
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/36029

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