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Behavior of nonmetallic inclusions in front of the solid-liquid interface in low-carbon steels

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The present study is concerned with the interaction phenomena of nonmetallic inclusions in front of a moving solid-liquid interface. The in situ observation was done in a high-temperature experiment by using a laser microscope. Alumina inclusions in an aluminum-killed steel with low oxygen content exhibited the well-known clustering behavior. The velocity of the advancing interface first increased while approaching the particle, but became stagnant during engulfment and increased again after that. Alumina-magnesia complex inclusions in a magnesium-added steel with high oxygen content were very finely dispersed in the molten pool. These inclusions escaped from the advancing interface during solidification, but gathered again at the retreating interface during remelting. The tiny inclusions were thought to behave just as tracer particles of a local flow. The velocity of particles was measured on a video image, and the significant acceleration or deceleration was found near the interface. It was concluded that the flow was induced by the Marangoni effect due to the local difference in temperature and oxygen content in front of the interface, particularly in the case of a higher oxygen content. However, the flow was weak in the case of a low oxygen content.

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  1. Kobe Steel Company, Kakogawa, Japan

    Sei Kimura (Research Fellow)

  2. the Institute for Advanced Materials Processing, Tohoku University, 980-8577, Sendai, Japan

    Y. Nabeshima (Postgraduate Student), K. Nakajima (Associate Professor) & S. Mizoguchi (Professor)

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This article is based on a presentation made in the “Geoffrey Belton Memorial Symposium,” held in January 2000, in Sydney, Australia, under the joint sponsorship of ISS and TMS.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11663-001-0021-y.

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Kimura, S., Nabeshima, Y., Nakajima, K. et al. Behavior of nonmetallic inclusions in front of the solid-liquid interface in low-carbon steels. Metall Mater Trans B 31, 1013–1021 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-000-0077-0

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