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Wetting and Soldering Behavior of Eutectic Au-Ge Alloy on Cu and Ni Substrates
Au-Ge-based alloys are interesting as novel high-temperature lead-free solders because of their low melting point, good thermal and electrical conductivity, and high corrosion resistance. In the present work, the wetting and soldering behavior of the eutectic Au-28Ge (at.%) alloy on Cu and Ni substrates have been investigated. Good wetting on both substrates with final contact angles of 13° to 14° was observed. In addition, solder joints with bond shear strength of 30MPa to 35MPa could be produced under controlled conditions. Cu substrates exhibit pronounced dissolution into the Au-Ge filler metal. On Ni substrates, the NiGe intermetallic compound was formed at the filler/substrate interface, which prevents dissolution of Ni into the solder. Using thin filler metal foils (25Όm), complete consumption of Ge in the reaction at the Ni interface was observed, leading to the formation of an almost pure Au layer in the soldering zon
Measurement of thermophysical properties of liquid metallic alloys in a ground- and microgravity based research program. The Thermolab Project
An outline of the Thermolab Project is reported with the aim of informing on the wide range of properties which are becoming available for some industrial alloys. Selected examples of experiments and properties are provided
Design of Composites by Infiltration Process: A Case Study of Liquid Ir-Si Alloy/SiC Systems
The design of processing routes involving the presence of the liquid phase is mainly associated with the knowledge of its surface and transport properties. Despite this need, due to experimental difficulties related to high temperature measurements of metallic melts, for many alloy systems neither thermodynamic nor thermophysical properties data are available. A good example of a system lacking these datasets is the Ir-Si system, although over the last fifty years, the structures and properties of its solid phases have been widely investigated. To compensate the missing data, the Gibbs free energy of mixing of the Ir-Si liquid phase was calculated combining the model predicted values for the enthalpy and entropy of mixing using Miedema's model and the free volume theory, respectively. Subsequently, in the framework of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, the surface properties were calculated using the quasi-chemical approximation (QCA) for the regular solution, while to obtain the viscosity, the Moelwyn-Hughes (MH) and Terzieff models were applied. Subsequently, the predicted values of the abovementioned thermophysical properties were used to model the non-reactive infiltration isotherm of Ir-Si (eutectic)/SiC system
Dynamic surface tension measurements of an aluminium-oxygen system
Dynamic surface tension measurements of molten aluminium have been carried out under different monitored oxygen partial pressures
in the temperature range 873\u20131323 K with the aim of experimentally confirming the behaviour of molten metals in the presence
of traces of oxygen as predicted by theoretical models [Ratto M, Ricci E, Arato E, Costa P. Metall Mater Trans B 1998;32B:903; Castello
P, Ricci E, Passerone A, Costa P. J Mater Sci 1994;29:6104]. The procedures necessary to obtain experimental validation of the theoretical
oxidation\u2013deoxidation curve at high temperatures under both low total pressure and atmospheric pressure are presented
Validation of an effective oxidation pressure model for liquid binary alloys
Dynamic surface-tension measurements using the sessile drop method and acquisition times of a few seconds make it possible to study the
evolution of the surface of molten metals and alloys and so reliably validate the predictive models of the interactions between pure liquid metals and
an oxidizing atmosphere, in both an inert gas carrier and in a vacuum. The presence of active oxidation contributes to maintaining surface cleanness
and then strongly affects the shape of the boundary separating oxidation and de-oxidation regimes. Recently the general physical\u2013mathematical
analysis we developed for pure liquid metals has been extended to liquid binary alloys and their oxides. In this work we present the experimental
results of tests on some binary alloys chosen as test systems to try to obtain a preliminary validation of the extended model. The theoretical results
obtained, indicating that the behaviour of the alloy towards oxidation tends to be similar to that of the less oxidizable component, have thus been
confirmed experimentally
Dynamic surface tension measurementson molten Sn: oxidation-deoxidation transition and model validation
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