Simulation study of effect of cooling rate on evolution of microstructures during solidification of liquid Mg

Wu Bo-Qiang; Liu Hai-Rong; Liu Rang-Su; Mo Yun-Fei; Tian Ze-An; Liang Yong-Chao; Guan Shao-Kang; Huang Chang-Xiong

doi:10.7498/aps.66.016101

Abstract

Magnesium metal and its alloys are widely used in industry,especially,as biodegradable materials are highly suitable for biomedical applications.Since macroscopic properties and service behaviors of materials are mainly determined by their microstructures,it is very important to in depth understand the melting structure of pure magnesium and its evolution process in solidification process.In this work,a molecular dynamic simulation studyis performed with embedded atom method potential at different cooling rates to investigate the rapid solidification process of liquid magnesium,and the microstructure evolution and phase transition mechanisms are systematically analyzed by using E-T curves,pair distribution function g (r),Honeycutt-Anderson (HA) bond-type index method,cluster-type index method (CTIM-3) and three-dimentional (3D) visualization method,respectively.It is found that the cooling rate plays an important role in the evolution of microstructures,especially;from HA bond index method,CTIM-3 and 3D visualization method,the microstructure details of crystalline or amorphous structures in the system are displayed quite clearly with temperature decreasing.Meanwhile,it can be easily found how some basic clusters interconnect to form a larger one in the system. For short,some local configurations under different conditions at four typical temperatures are also given to show the difference in microstructure on a relatively large scale.At a lower cooling rate of 11011 K/s,the evolution of metastable bcc structure is obviously consistent with the Ostwald's step rule in the system,meaning that the bcc structure is first formed preferentially and then dissociated largely,and eventually the stable crystalline structures are formed mainly with the predominant hcp structure and fcc structure,and coexisting along with remaining partial bcc structure.At a middle cooling rate of 11012 K/s,the crystallization process is slower,the bcc initially is formed at lower temperature, suggesting that the crystalline process is postponed,and the coexisting structures is still formed with the predominant hcp structure and fcc,bcc structures,but lacking in the larger grains,due to the competitions among the hcp,fcc and bcc structures.Finally,for a higher cooling rate of 11013 K/s,amorphous magnesium is formed with basic amorphous clusters characterized by 1551,1441 and 1431 bond types and there is not a predominant structure,although a small number of medium or long range orders come out.In addition,there surely exists a critical cooling rate for forming amorphous structures in a range of 11012-11013 K/s.From the evolution of bcc,it is also suggested that short range orders in super-cooling liquid give birth to bcc structure and the process can be avoided by simply speeding up the cooling rate to a critical one.

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Authors and contacts

1.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;
2.
School of Physics and Microelectronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;
3.
College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China;
4.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

Corresponding author: Liu Hai-Rong, liuhairong@hnu.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China（Grant No. 51102090), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, China（Grant No. NCET-12-0170) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China（Grant No. 2016JJ2023).

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[1]	Ostwald W 1897 Phys. Chem. 22 289
[2]	Alexander S, McTague J 1978 Phys. Rev. Lett. 41 702
[3]	Klein W, Leyvraz F 1986 Phys. Rev. Lett. 57 2845
[4]	Sun D Y, Asta M, Hoyt J J, Mendelev M I, Srolovitz D J 2004 Phys. Rev. B 69 020102
[5]	Hoyt J J, Asta M, Sun D Y 2006 Phil. Mag. 86 3651
[6]	Lutsko J F, Baus M 1990 Phys. Rev. Lett. 64 761
[7]	Xie W J, Cao C D, Lu Y J, Wei B 2011 J. Mater. Sci. 46 6203
[8]	Tian Z A, Liu R S, Zheng C X, Liu H R, Hou Z Y, Peng P 2008 Acta Phys. Sin. 57 3653 （in Chinese)[周丽丽, 刘让苏, 侯朝阳, 田泽安, 林艳, 刘全慧2008物理学报57 3653]
[9]	Debela T T, Wang X D, Cao Q P, Zhang D X, Zhu J J, Jiang J Z 2015 J. Appl. Phys. 117 114905
[10]	Liu R S, Li J Y, Dong K J, Zheng C X, Liu H R 2002 Mater. Sci. Eng. B 94 141
[11]	Liu R S, Liu F X, Dong K J, Zheng C X, Liu H R, Peng P 2004 Acta Phys. Chim. Sin. 20 1093 （in Chinese)[刘让苏, 刘凤祥, 董科军, 郑采星, 刘海蓉, 彭平2004物理化学学报20 1093]
[12]	Liu R S, Dong K J, Li J Y, Yu A B, Zou R P 2005 J. Non-Cryst. Solids 351 612
[13]	Hou Z Y, Liu L X, Liu R S, Tian Z A 2002 Chin. Phys. Lett. 19 1144
[14]	Honeycutt J D, Andersen H C 1987 J. Phys. Chem. 91 4950
[15]	Ganesh P, Widom M 2006 Phys. Rev. B 74 134205
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[17]	Sun D Y, Mendelev M I, Becker C A, Kudin K, Haxhimali T, Asta M, Hoyt J J, Karma A, Srolovitz D J 2006 Phys. Rev. B 73 024116
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[19]	Qi D W, Wang S 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 4949
[20]	Geng H R, Sun C J, Yang Z X, Wang R, Ji L L 2006 Acta Phys. Sin. 55 1320 （in Chinese)[耿浩然, 孙春雷, 杨中喜, 王瑞, 吉蕾蕾2006物理学报55 1320]
[21]	Zhao S, Li J F, Liu L, Zhou Y H 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 1917
[22]	Mo Y F, Liu R S, Liang Y C, Zhang H T, Tian Z A, Hou Z Y, Liu H R, Zhou L L, Peng P, Gao H T 2015 Comput. Mater. Sci. 98 1
[23]	Deng Y, Liu R S, Zhou Q Y, Liu H R, Liang Y C, Mo Y F, Zhang H T, Tian Z A, Peng P 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 166101 （in Chinese)[邓阳, 刘让苏, 周群益, 刘海蓉, 梁永超, 莫云飞, 张海涛, 田泽安, 彭平2013物理学报62 166101]

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