UNIDIRECTIONALLY-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS AND CASTINGS FORMED THEREBY

A process capable of producing large metallic castings having lengths of one hundred centimeters or more and a unidirectional crystal structure substantially free of freckle defects. The process includes preheating a mold within a heating zone of a directional casting apparatus, pouring a molten met...

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BALSONE STEPHEN JOSEPH
SCHAEFFER JON CONRAD
description A process capable of producing large metallic castings having lengths of one hundred centimeters or more and a unidirectional crystal structure substantially free of freckle defects. The process includes preheating a mold within a heating zone of a directional casting apparatus, pouring a molten metal alloy into a cavity of the mold, and then withdrawing the mold from the heating zone, through a heat shield, and into a cooling zone of the directional casting apparatus to directionally solidify the molten metal alloy within the cavity. The heating and cooling zones establish an axial thermal gradient that defines a solidification front in the molten metal alloy within the cavity. The mold is withdrawn at a withdrawal rate that, in combination with the axial thermal gradient, causes the solidification front to be substantially flat and perpendicular to the withdrawal direction.
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subjects AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE
ALLOYS
APPARATUS THEREFOR
BLASTING
CASTING
CASTING OF METALS
CASTING OF OTHER SUBSTANCES BY THE SAME PROCESSES OR DEVICES
CHEMISTRY
CRYSTAL GROWTH
ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL
FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS
HEATING
INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TONON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES ORJET-PROPULSION PLANTS
INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUSSUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
LAYERED PRODUCTS
LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT ORNON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
LIGHTING
MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
METALLURGY
NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
POWDER METALLURGY
PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE
REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL
SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE
SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH
STEAM ENGINES
TRANSPORTING
TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL
WEAPONS
title UNIDIRECTIONALLY-SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS AND CASTINGS FORMED THEREBY
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