During directional solidification of alloys, transitions from a planar to cell to dendrites generally occur as the velocity is increased. The reverse transition from dendrites to cell also occurs when the velocity is increased further. The high veloci...
During directional solidification of alloys, transitions from a planar to cell to dendrites generally occur as the velocity is increased. The reverse transition from dendrites to cell also occurs when the velocity is increased further. The high velocity transition is generally observed in rapid solidification techniques. In this study, experiments have been carried out in Fe-Cr and Fe-Ni in which the freezing range is very narrow so that the high transition occurs at relatively low velocities, 50~100㎛/sec, by bridgman-type directional solidification. We observed that dendrite formation can be suppressed so that the interface of solid/liquid changes continuously from low velocity to high velocity cell. It was also interesting to find that the cell spacing was continuous with growth velocity from the low and high velocity cells. The interface temperature analysis by using the cellular growth model. Interface temperature increases with velocity for the low velocity cell whereas is decreases with velocity for the high velocity cell.