著者

杉山 明 安田 秀幸 柳楽 知也 吉矢 真人 上杉 健太朗 梅谷 啓二 大中 逸雄

出版者

公益社団法人 日本鋳造工学会

雑誌

鋳造工学 = Journal of Japan Foundry Engineering Society (ISSN:13420429)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.3, pp.131-136, 2011-03-25

参考文献数

11

被引用文献数

1

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It is well known that controlling the graphite shape in cast iron is a critical issue to achieve appropriate properties. It is of interest to know how the microstructure in cast iron evolves during solidification. So far, time-evolution of the microstructure has not been observed in-situ. This paper presents the in-situ observation results of cast iron solidification using X-ray imaging of synchrotron radiation. Transmission X-ray images with a spatial resolution of as small as 5<i>μ</i>m were obtained by an X-ray detector SATICON in an imaging beam line 20B2 at SPring-8. A 10 × 10 × 0.1mm specimen was melted and solidified in a mold made of Al₂O₃ placed in a vacuum chamber. The observation showed that the solidification started with austenite dendrites, after which the eutectic structure was formed. Graphite clusters of about 100<i>μ</i>m in diameter were formed in the remaining liquid surrounded by the eutectic structure at a cooling rate of less than 10K/min. At a cooling rate of 10K/min, the primary dendrite and the eutectic grains moved up and down, respectively, due to the bouncy force.