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在内径为1 mm的细管中进行了Fe-4.2Ni亚包晶合金扩散条件下的定向凝固实验.在15 μm/s抽拉速率下得到了树状组织、共生组织以及δ/γ两相分离生长的凝固组织,组织演化规律为:δ单相→δ/γ两相树状组织→γ+两相共生组织→δ/γ两相分离并列生长组织;抽拉速率为35μm/s时,获得了以γ岛状为主的凝固组织,组织演化规律为:δ单相→δ/γ两相树状组织→γ-岛状组织+共生组织→δ+γ-岛状组织.实验发现,提高抽拉速率使凝固初始阶段的两相生长竞争加剧,并导致凝固过程中的相选择和全程组织演化规律发生改变.

Phase selection and microstructure evolution play important roles on processing and property control of the materials with peritectic reactions. Many interesting microstructures, such as peritectic coupled growth (PCG), discrete banding, island banding (IB) and oscillatory tree-like structure were observed in directionally solidified peritectic alloys. In recent years, a number of theoretical models have been developed for the phase selection. For example, it was believed that peritectic coupled growth is initiated by island banding and is similar to eutectic coupled growth,discrete banding is shaped by nucleation and lateral spreading of one phase onto the other phase, and island banding is formed when the nucleation rate of one phase on the other phase growth interface is higher than a critical value, and etc. But these models were developed under the assumption that the growth of the phases are controlled by diffusion only, whereas the actual experimental studies were mainly carried out in bulk metallic samples with the presence of convection. Although it has been believed that the convection effects on microstructure evolution are very important and could not be neglected, studies were seldom carried out in diffusive regime. In this paper,directional solidification of Fe-4.2Ni hypo-peritectic alloy in diffusive regime was carried out in a Bridgman furnace by placing the samples in 1 mm inner diameter thin tubes. The experimental results show that various microstructures and phase selections are obtained in the directionally solid ified thin samples at the pulling rates of 15 and 35 μm/s. Tee-like structure, peritectic coupled growth and the steadily solidified structure of two phases separated growth are formed at the pulling rate of 15 μm/s, and the microstructures evolution is: single phase δ→tree-like structure→γ and PCG→separately growing δ/γ. At the pulling rate of 35 μm/s, the main microstructure is γ-IB, and the microstructures evolution is: δ→tree-like structure→γ-IB in the center and PCG at the edge→δ in the center and γ-IB at the edge. As the pulling rate increases from 15 to 35 μm/s, the morphology of tree-like structure formed by the competitive growth between the nucleated γ-phase and the parent δ-phase becomes complicated. It is found that the pulling rate plays an important role in both the formation and evolution of various microstructures.