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Measurement of thermophysical properties of liquid metallic alloys in a ground- and microgravity based research programme — theThermoLab project

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The ThermoLab project is concerned with the measurement of the thermophysical properties of industrial alloys in the liquid phase. The project combines long and short duration microgravity measurements based on containerless processing with an electromagnetic levitation device and a ground based experimental programme using conventional and containerless processing techniques. An overview of the project and representative results from the ground based experimental programme are given. Alloys investigated included Ni-based, Fe-based, a Cu-Sn-Mg alloy and a γ-TiAl alloy.

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  1. Rainer K. Wunderlich

    Present address: Materials Division, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 47, 89081, Ulm, Germany

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ragnhild Aune & Seshadri Seetharaman

  2. Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Livio Battezzati

  3. National Physical Laboratory, Materials Centre, Teddington, UK

    Rob Brooks & Peter N. Quested

  4. ZEUS (Zentrum für Erstarrung Unterkühlter Schmelzen) at DLR, Cologne, Germany

    Ivan Egry & Stephan Schneider

  5. Materials Division, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

    Hans-Jörg Fecht & Rainer K. Wunderlich

  6. Department of Materials, Imperial College STM, London, UK

    Jean-Paul Garandet & Bernard Vinet

  7. IENI-CNR Ge, Genoa, Italy

    Ken C. Mills

  8. Département des Technologies pour les Engergies Nouvelles, CEA/DTEN, Grenoble, France

    Alberto Passerone & Enrica Ricci

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Aune, R., Battezzati, L., Brooks, R. et al. Measurement of thermophysical properties of liquid metallic alloys in a ground- and microgravity based research programme — theThermoLab project. Microgravity sci. Technol. 16, 7–10 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02945936

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