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The Solidification of Multicomponent Alloys

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Various topics taken from the author’s research portfolio that involve multicomponent alloy solidification are reviewed. Topics include: ternary eutectic solidification and Scheil-Gulliver paths in ternary systems. A case study of the solidification of commercial 2219 aluminum alloy is described. Also presented are modifications of the Scheil-Gulliver analysis to treat dendrite tip kinetics and solid diffusion for multicomponent alloys.

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The author thanks his many co-authors over the years, and especially Ursula Kattner and Dilip Banerjee for the work presented in this paper.

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This article is an invited paper selected from presentations at the Hume-Rothery Award Symposium on “Multicomponent Alloy Metallurgy, the Bridge from Materials Science to Materials Engineering,” during TMS 2015, held March 15–19, 2015, in Orlando, Fla., and has been expanded from the original presentation. This symposium was held in honor of the 2015 Hume-Rothery award recipient, William Boettinger, for outstanding contributions to thermodynamics and kinetics of metallurgical systems and their application to the understanding of alloy microstructures and the relationship to processing conditions.

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Boettinger, W.J. The Solidification of Multicomponent Alloys. J. Phase Equilib. Diffus. 37, 4–18 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11669-015-0416-0

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