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The parameters in a recently developed constitutive equation for macroscopic thermal strain in the mushy zone have been determined for the commercial alloys A356, AA2024, AA6061, and AA7075 in addition to an Al-4 wt pct Cu alloy. The constitutive equation for macroscopic thermal strain in the mushy zone reflects that there is no thermal strain in the solid part of the mushy zone at low solid fractions and that the thermal strain in the mushy zone approaches thermal strain in the fully solid material as the solid fraction increases toward 1. The development of thermal strain in the mushy zone is determined by combining experimentally measured contraction of a cast sample with thermomechanical stimulations. Experiments were performed at cooling rates in the range from 2 to 5.5 °C/s. The solid fractions when the tested alloys start to contract,g s th, are in the range from 0.63 to 0.94. Grain refinement increasesg s th for all the tested alloys. For most of the tested alloys the thermal strain in the mushy zone increases rapidly to the same level as thermal strain in fully solid material once the solid fraction becomes higher thang s th.
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Stangeland, A., Mo, A. & Eskin, D. Thermal strain in the mushy zone for aluminum alloys. Metall Mater Trans A 37, 2219–2229 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586141
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