Multirange Fractal Analysis of Discontinuous Microstructure Change of In-40wt.%Sn Melt

Abstract:

Fractal analysis based on results of high temperature X-ray diffraction experiment was used to study the temporal-spatial properties of particles in In-40wt.%Sn melt. Partially-overlapping multirange fractal structure is observed in In-40wt.%Sn melt, and as temperature decreases from 800°C to 130°C, low fractal dimension was found to range between 2.000 and 2.669, high fractal dimension is still 3.000 without alteration. Moreover, low fractal dimension reveals a discontinuous change between 600°C and 700°C. Fractal characteristics of In-40wt.%Sn melt were correlated with the evolution of microstructure. The discussion was made in detail. Multirange fractal model was proposed to calculate transition region curves of multirange fractals. The results show that values of simulation show good agreement with experimental values, the maximum error is less than 1.3%. From the analysis, the range of the transition region between two fractal regions is speculated to be related with structure properties of metal melts. In addition, ultrafine particles’ aggregation mechanism was used to analyze the fractal morphologies. Keywords: multirange fractal; In-40wt.%Sn melt; microstructure change; X-ray diffraction.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 704-705)
• Pages: 1055-1060
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.704-705.1055
• Online since: December 2011
• Authors: Yong Zhi Zhou, Hao Ran Geng, Mei Li, Chun Jing Sun, Zhi Ming Wang
• Keywords: In-40wt.%Sn Melt, Microstructure Change, Multirange Fractal, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

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