The use of master curves to describe the simultaneous effect of cooling rate and pressure on polymer crystallization

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo La Carrubba ◽  
Valerio Brucato ◽  
Stefano Piccarolo



2014 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Kocic ◽  
Sara Lederhofer ◽  
Karsten Kretschmer ◽  
Martin Bastian ◽  
Peter Heidemeyer


1998 ◽  
Vol 554 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Clavaguera ◽  
M. T. Clavaguera-Mora

AbstractThe aim of the present paper is to analyse the glass formation and stability of bulk metallic glasses. Attention is focused to metallic alloys as systems which may develop a large glassforming ability. Glass formation when quenching from the liquid state is discussed in terms of the thermodynamics and kinetics of the stable/metastable competing phases. Thermodynamics is required to relate glass transition temperature, Tg, to the energetics of the supercooled liquid. Kinetic destabilisation of equilibrium solidification and, consequently, glass forming ability are favoured by the high viscosity values achieved under continuous cooling. The relative thermal stability of the supercooled liquid depends on the thermodynamic driving force and interfacial energy between each competing nucleating phase and the molten alloy. It is shown that the quantities representative of the process, once scaled, have a temperature dependence that is mostly fixed by the reduced glass transition temperature, Tgr= Tg/Tm, Tm being the melting temperature. Based on the classical models of nucleation and crystal growth, the reduced critical cooling rate is shown to follow master curves when plotted against Tgr. Experimental trends for specific systems are compared to predicted values from these master curves.



1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Lambrigger


Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
H.C. Cheng ◽  
J.R. Gong ◽  
J.G. Yang

For fuel savings as well as energy and resource requirement, high strength low alloy steels (HSLA) are of particular interest to automobile industry because of the potential weight reduction which can be achieved by using thinner section of these steels to carry the same load and thus to improve the fuel mileage. Dual phase treatment has been utilized to obtain superior strength and ductility combinations compared to the HSLA of identical composition. Recently, cooling rate following heat treatment was found to be important to the tensile properties of the dual phase steels. In this paper, we report the results of the investigation of cooling rate on the microstructures and mechanical properties of several vanadium HSLA steels.The steels with composition (in weight percent) listed below were supplied by China Steel Corporation: 1. low V steel (0.11C, 0.65Si, 1.63Mn, 0.015P, 0.008S, 0.084Aℓ, 0.004V), 2. 0.059V steel (0.13C, 0.62S1, 1.59Mn, 0.012P, 0.008S, 0.065Aℓ, 0.059V), 3. 0.10V steel (0.11C, 0.58Si, 1.58Mn, 0.017P, 0.008S, 0.068Aℓ, 0.10V).



Author(s):  
J. M. Walsh ◽  
J. C. Whittles ◽  
B. H. Kear ◽  
E. M. Breinan

Conventionally cast γ’ precipitation hardened nickel-base superalloys possess well-defined dendritic structures and normally exhibit pronounced segregation. Splat quenched, or rapidly solidified alloys, on the other hand, show little or no evidence for phase decomposition and markedly reduced segregation. In what follows, it is shown that comparable results have been obtained in superalloys processed by the LASERGLAZE™ method.In laser glazing, a sharply focused laser beam is traversed across the material surface at a rate that induces surface localized melting, while avoiding significant surface vaporization. Under these conditions, computations of the average cooling rate can be made with confidence, since intimate contact between the melt and the self-substrate ensures that the heat transfer coefficient is reproducibly constant (h=∞ for perfect contact) in contrast to the variable h characteristic of splat quenching. Results of such computations for pure nickel are presented in Fig. 1, which shows that there is a maximum cooling rate for a given absorbed power density, corresponding to the limiting case in which melt depth approaches zero.



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