Thermophysical properties of liquid niobium

Abstract

A resistive pulse heating technique is used to make measurements of thermophysical properties of liquid niobium. Results are presented for volume, electrical resistivity, temperature, enthalpy, and sound velocity over a wide range.     

Al-Cu-Ge合金的热物理性质与快速凝固规律研究

Al-Cu-Ge合金是典型的三元共晶体系,在工业上有重要的应用价值,对其进行研究有助于了解该合金的热物理性质和提高该合金的结构性能.本文选择了Al55Cu10Ge35,Al70Cu10Ge20和Al80Cu10Ge10三种成分合金作为研究对象,对合金的固态比热和热膨胀系数进行了测量,并对比分析了合金在近平衡凝固和落管快速凝固条件下的组织特征和凝固路径.研究发现,合金比热随Al含量的增大和Ge含量的减少而增大.这三种成分合金的软化温度均为666 K,物理热膨胀系数α在370—650 K温度范围内基本一致,约为1.5×10-5K-1.近平衡凝固条件下合金凝固过程中最后一步反应生成的均为(Al)+(Ge)二相共晶而不是三元共晶,这表明(Al)、(Ge)和CuAl2相在这三种成分的Al-Cu-Ge合金中难以同时形核并协同生长.然而,在快速凝固条件下,初生相的形核和生成受到抑制,合金中更易于形成二相共晶和三元共晶组织.     

深过冷液态Al-Ni合金中枝晶与共晶生长机理

在自由落体条件下实现了液态Al-4 wt.%Ni亚共晶、Al-5.69 wt.%Ni共晶和Al-8 wt.%Ni过共晶合金的深过冷与快速凝固. 计算表明, (Al+Al₃Ni)规则纤维状共晶的共生区是4.8–15 wt.%Ni成分范围内不闭合区域, 且强烈偏向Al₃Ni相一侧. 实验发现, 随液滴直径的减小, 合金熔体冷却速率和过冷度增大, (Al)和Al₃Ni相枝晶与其共晶的竞争生长引发了Al-Ni 共晶型合金微观组织演化. 在快速凝固过程中, Al-4 wt.%Ni亚共晶合金发生完全溶质截留效应, 从而形成亚稳单相固溶体. 当过冷度超过58K时, Al-5.69 wt.%Ni 共晶合金呈现从纤维状共晶向初生(Al) 枝晶为主的亚共晶组织演变. 若过冷度连续增大, Al-8 wt.%Ni过共晶合金可以形成全部纤维状共晶组织, 并且最终演变为粒状共晶.     

Structural properties of undercooled liquid sodium and caesium

Extensive theoretical results for the temperature dependence of the static and dynamical structure of undercooled alkali metals using Na and Cs as examples are presented. The static structural properties are obtained from the HMSA integral equations using pair potentials derived from an accurate non-local pscudopotential. The dynamical properties obtained from viscoelastic theory are compared with experiments and the results of memory function formalism. The study indicates that collective density excitations are more dominant in the undercooled region than at their melting points, and that the dynamical properties of Na and Cs exhibit subtle differences in their gross features.     

过冷Ni-P合金的凝固行为

以揭示共晶系合金在不同过冷度下凝固时初生相的选择规律和凝固组织形成机理为目的, 用熔融玻璃净化和循环过热相结合的方法, 将Ni_100-xP_x(x=18, 19, 19.6, 20, 21, 原子百分比)合金过冷至平衡液相线以下不同的温度, 用高速红外测温仪记录了试样的凝固冷却曲线, 详尽分析了试样的凝固组织.结果表明, 过冷Ni-P合金快速凝固过程中析出的初生相为α-Ni/Ni₃P耦合共晶时, 整个凝固过程中仅出现一次再辉, 在所形成的异常共晶组织中α-Ni颗粒大小分布均匀;而当某一共晶相优先析出时, 另外一相需要在残留液相中重新形核, 致使凝固过程中出现两次再辉, 相应形成颗粒相大小截然不同的两类异常共晶组织;据此绘制了Ni-P合金初生相为共生共晶的区域. Ni-P合金中α-Ni的生长动力学明显快于Ni₃P, 使得在大过冷度下过共晶合金也以α-Ni作为初生相进行凝固.     

Microstructure evolution of undercooled Fe-Co-Cu alloys

Rapid solidification of undercooled Fe-Co-Cu alloys was investigated by means of fluxing purification and cyclic superheating technique. A transition in microstructure from dendrites to phase-separation occurred above a phase-separation undercooling ΔT_sep. When ΔT<ΔT_sep, dendrite was observed, the trunks were rich in Fe and Co, while Cu was rich at inter-dendrites. However, the phase-separated microstructure was obtained once ΔT>ΔT_sep, with a large sphere of L1 phase located almost at the center of the sample and enwrapped by L2 phase. ΔT_sep was 222, 88 and 45 K for Fe₅₀Co₃₀Cu₂₀, Fe₂₅Co₂₅Cu₅₀ and Fe₁₅Co₁₅Cu₇₀ alloys in this work, respectively. It was investigated that L1 phase solidified before L2 phase after liquid separation and followed different ways.     

Thermophysical properties and structure of stable and metastable liquid cobalt

The thermophysical properties and structure of liquid cobalt are investigated in the temperature range from 1000 to 2400 K. The properties include density, molar volume, enthalpy and specific heat at both normal and undercooled states. The density decreases linearly with the increase of temperature. At the melting point, the value of density is 7.71 g cm⁻³, and its temperature coefficient is . The molar volume increases with the increase of temperature in a nonlinear manner. The enthalpy increases linearly with the rise of temperature. This indicates that the specific heat changes little with temperature: 40.11 J mol⁻¹ K⁻¹. Furthermore, the liquid structure is studied by analyzing the pair correlation function. With the increase of undercooling, the degree of short range order of liquid cobalt becomes more and more remarkable, which is deduced by the appearance of a saddle at the second neighbor distance.     

Surface properties of liquid In-Zn alloys

The measurements of surface tension and density of zinc, indium and liquid In-Zn alloys containing 0.9, 0.85, 0.75, 0.70, 0.60, 0.40, 0.25 and 0.10 mole fraction of In were carried out using the method of maximum pressure in gaseous bubbles (MBP) as well as dilatometric technique. The technique of sessile drop was additionally applied in the measurements of surface tension for pure indium and zinc. The measurements were performed at temperature range 474-1151 K. The isotherms of surface tension calculated based on Butler's equation at 700 and 1100 K corresponded well with the experimental values for zinc content lower than 0.6 mole fraction. The surface tension calculated for alloys of higher zinc concentrations (0.6 < X_Zn < 0.95) had a positive value of the surface tension temperature coefficient (dσ/dT), which did not coincide with the experimental results. The density as well as molar volume of liquid In-Zn alloys showed almost identical behaviour like the ideal solutions. The observed little deviations were contained within assessed experimental errors.     

深过冷液态Ni2 TiAl合金热物理性质的分子动力学模拟

采用嵌入原子法对深过冷条件下Ni2TiAl合金的焓和密度进行了分子动力学模拟,模拟获得了比热和密度在1200K至2000K范围内的温度依赖关系.结果表明过冷条件下Ni2TiAl合金的比热、密度和温度之间存在着线性关系,它们都随着温度的降低而降低.比热的大小与依据Neumann-Kopp法则估算的结果相近,同时模拟过程中的尺度效应经验证可以忽略.     

Thermal properties of liquid alloys of magnesium-lead system

The temperature variations of the density of liquid magnesium-lead alloys were measured by the gamma-method in the temperature range from the liquidus temperature to 950–1000 K for compositions of 19.11, 33.45, 52.46, and 83.06 at. % Pb. It is shown that within the estimated errors (0.25–0.30 %), the alloy density depends linearly on the temperature. Approximation dependences ρ(T) were obtained for every studied composition together with generalizing density-temperature and density-concentration dependences for the range of 0–100 at. % Pb. The work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 06-08-00040).     

Surface and transport properties of Au-In liquid alloys

Thermodynamic quantities on Au-In liquid alloys have been used as the input data for the interaction parameter calculations in the framework of the complex formation model (CFM). Once the interaction energies are computed the surface (surface tension and surface composition) and transport properties (chemical diffusion and viscosity) as well as the microscopic functions (concentration fluctuations in the long-wavelength limit and chemical short-range order parameter) have been calculated. The concentration and temperature dependent surface tension values have been compared with our new set of experimental data, obtained by the large drop method in the temperature range of T = 1273-1493 K. The anomalous change of surface tension for some alloy compositions may be attributed to a retention of order in the Au-In melts which is similar to the atomic arrangement in solid Au-In.     

Structure and properties of some glass-forming liquid alloys

Some physical properties (kinematic viscosity, surface tension and magnetic susceptibility) of some Fe-based metallic melts of easily glass-forming alloys have been measured during heating and subsequent cooling. The results indicate that molten liquid metallic alloys undergo a number of structural transformations ranging from the initial microheterogeneous state formed after melting up to the true solution state. Studies by small angle neutron scattering on a eutectic SnPb melt confirm this conclusion in that two families of different sizes have been seen, one in the range 1 to 2 nm and one of size larger than 100 nm. Both kind of particles have relatively sharp interfaces and the size of the smaller particles is found to depend on temperature. Received 25 February 1999 and Received in final form 28 October 1999     

Electrical and thermoelectrical properties of selenium-tellurium liquid alloys

A study has been made of the electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power of liquid alloys Te_1-x Se _x with 0≤-x≤-0.5. The temperature range extends from undercooling to about 900°C for electrical conductivity and 750°C for thermoelectric power. A partial conservation after melting of covalent bonds between the atoms of the chains leads to a liquid model in which Gubanov's theory predicts an energy band gap. The experimental results in the intrinsic semiconductor range give the band gap and the mobility ratio values. The thermal gap changes from 1.2 to 3 ev between pure tellurium and the alloy with 70 at. % selenium. There is a large increase in hole mobility with atomic % selenium. For x≥0.2 the low temperature results of the electrical conductivity can be explained by the existence of localized states in the band gap. The high temperature measurements show a trend to the metallic state, but this state cannot be reached at one atmosphere pressure even for tellurium.     

Thermodynamic properties and ordering in liquid NaK alloys

The thermodynamic activities of sodium and potassium were determined by vapour-phase absorption spectrophotometry of atomic resonance lines. Both components exhibit significant positive deviations from ideality. Excess Gibbs energies computed from the activity data were combined with available heat-of-mixing data to yield values for excess entropies. The entropy of mixing which was found to be ideal in the sodium-rich liquid alloys provides no support for the earlier speculations about the existence of Na₂K molecules therein. The partial molar excess entropy of sodium in dilute solution in potassium was found to be surprisingly large and negative for a system of this type. A plausible model, involving sodium-sodium pairing, is proposed to account for the loss of configurational entropy.     

Thermophysical properties of stable and metastable liquid copper and nickel by molecular dynamics simulation

Molecular dynamics simulation combined with an embedded atom method (EAM) potential was applied to the calculation of the specific heat and the diffusion coefficient for superheated and undercooled liquid copper and nickel as functions of temperature. The system contains 108,000 atoms. The calculated results show that the enthalpy increases linearly with the rise of temperature. There are no breaks at their melting temperatures of 1356 and 1726 K. It is found that the calculated specific heats of Cu and Ni are 32.75 and 36.11 J/mol/K respectively. The calculated mean square displacements increase linearly with calculated time. The diffusion coefficients are exponentially dependent on temperature. Moreover, the calculated results are in good agreement with the reported experimental results for the specific heat and diffusion coefficient.     

深过冷液态Ni2TiAl合金热物理性质的分子动力学模拟

采用嵌入原子法对深过冷条件下Ni₂TiAl合金的焓和密度进行了分子动力学模拟，模拟获得了比热和密度在1200K至2000K范围内的温度依赖关系. 结果表明过冷条件下Ni₂TiAl合金的比热、密度和温度之间存在着线性关系，它们都随着温度的降低而降低. 比热的大小与依据Neumann-Kopp法则估算的结果相近，同时模拟过程中的尺度效应经验证可以忽略. 关键词： 2TiAl合金')" href="#">Ni₂TiAl合金 比热 密度 分子动力学模拟     

Thermodynamic and surface properties of Sb-Sn and In-Sn liquid alloys

The thermodynamic properties of Sb-Sn and In-Sn liquid alloys have been studied using the quasi-chemical model for compound forming binary alloys and that for simple regular alloys. The concentration fluctuation S _cc(0) and the Warren-Cowley short-range order parameter (α ₁) were determined for the whole concentration range at a temperature of 770 K. The surface tensions of these liquid alloys were determined for the whole concentration range by using energetics determined from thermodynamic calculations. In all calculations, In-Sn manifested properties very close to alloys of ideal mixing, while Sb-Sn showed properties that are asymmetric about equiatomic composition. Our results suggest that a weak complex of the form SbSn₂ could be present in the Sb-Sn alloy at a temperature of about 770 K.     

Thermophysical properties of aluminum nitride ceramic

The paper reports an experimental low-temperature study of the temperature-dependent behavior of the lattice constants, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity of the AlN ceramic. The results obtained are compared with the data available for the high-temperature region. The thermal expansion coefficient is found to be negative. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 93–96 (January 1997)