Grain refinement effect of Al-Sc-B master alloy for Zr/Sc containing Al alloys

IF 2.7 4区材料科学 Q3 MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Materials Letters Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI:10.1016/j.matlet.2025.138426

Huabing Yang , Ying Li , Kaiming Cheng , Yunteng Liu , Jianhua Wu , Hongtao Liu , Jin Wang , Dongqing Zhao , Linghui Song , Jixue Zhou , Xiangfa Liu

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Abstract

Traditional Al-Ti-B/C grain refiners subject to “poisoning effect” when Zr/Sc elements are contained in Al alloys during inoculation. To overcome the difficulty, an Al-2Sc-0.5B master alloy was prepared in this work. It was found that ScB₂ and ScAl₃ were the main secondary phases in the alloy. Introducing 0.01 % Sc using the Al-2Sc-0.5B to commercial purity Al-0.13Zr alloy, its α-Al grain size could be refined from 1179 μm to 646 μm. However, adding 0.01 %Sc using Al-2Sc master alloy which just contained secondary phase of ScAl₃ showed nearly no grain refinement effect. It indicated that ScB₂ played important role in the grain refinement. According to crystallographic analysis, (0001)ScB₂ and (111)Al had the same atomic arrangement, and crystal mismatch between them was ∼ 7.71 % at 660℃. Thus, ScB₂ was proposed a potential nucleation substrate for α-Al.

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Materials Letters 工程技术-材料科学：综合

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5.60

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3.30%

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1948

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50 days

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