| Abstract: | Tensile strength and ductility of unidirectionally and randomly solidified Sn, Pb and Sn–Pb eutectic alloy are determined. Appreciable increase in the ductility from random to directional growth has been observed in case of Sn, Pb and Pb–Sn eutectic. Improvement in tensile strengths of pure metals and their eutectic composite by 15–20% and 15%, respectively, was evident in case of directionally solidified to randomly grown samples. The increase in tensile strength of the eutectic was 2–2.5 times to the strength of the pure metals. Tensile strength of directionally solidified Pb–Sn eutectic studied at different rates of solidification for constant temperature gradient was lower at higher and at lower rates of solidification than the value at medium rates of solidification. |
