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Recent improvements in detectors combined with the eminent brightness and collimation offered with modern synchrotron sources open the way forin situ X-radiographic investigations of solidification fundamentals and phenomena in real alloys at resolutions approaching regular video microscopy. Here, the authors present observations on dendrite fragmentation from columnar fronts in Al-Cu and subsequent transport phenomena. From directional solidification experiments it has been found that the tendency for crystal fragments to detach by remelting of branch roots in the mush dendrite network strongly depends upon the relative buoyant and settling motions of crystal fragments and mush liquid, respectively. At the copper concentrations studied (20 to 30 wt pct), primary aluminum dendrites are lighter than the melt and solidification experiments parallel and anti-parallel to gravity show significant differences in detachment tendency. The experimental results compare well with three different models proposed for fragmentation at different mush locations; however, the results also demonstrate that these models differ substantially both with respect to detachment frequency and the ability for detached fragments to cause eventual columnar to equiaxed transitions. Under particular conditions it has been found that crystal fragmentation could lead to an alternating mesoscale segregation.
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Mathiesen, R.H., Arnberg, L., Bleuet, P. et al. Crystal fragmentation and columnar-to-equiaxed transitions in Al-Cu studied by synchrotron X-ray video microscopy. Metall Mater Trans A 37, 2515–2524 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586224
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