Plínio Ivo Gama Tenório, Rafael Cardoso Toledo, Maurício Ribeiro Baldan, Irajá Newton Bandeira, Chen Ying An
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Abstract
The eutectic PbSn alloy was directly solidified by vertical gradient freeze technique under high gravity conditions, with gravitational acceleration equal to 1 g, 9 g, and 10 g (where g = 9.81 m/s²). The density of the was determined using Archimedes' principle, and the atomic percentage of solute along the longitudinal direction was estimated using the mixture rule. The cooling data indicated an undercooling phenomenon for samples solidified at high accelerations. Microstructure characterization showed composition differences along the sample length of the samples, attributed to gravity-driven solute sedimentation during solidification. This sedimentation resulted in distinct microstructures: primary and dendritic phases as well as regular and anomalous eutectic structures.
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