Continuous casting of thin wires and fibres by in-rotating-liquid spinning

✍ Scribed by G. Frommeyer; B. Heyder

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 742 KB
• Volume: 173
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-5093
• DOI: 10.1016/0921-5093(93)90238-a

✦ Synopsis

A computer-controlled facility for continuous casting of metallic fibres and wires by in-rotating-liquid spinning was designed to determine and control the process over an extended casting period. In particular, the flow behaviour of the melt jet was theoretically and experimentally investigated. The controlling process parameters, such as the velocity of the melt jet, the stable free flight length, the nozzle geometry and cooling rate, were examined and optimized to produce fibres and wires of high quality. Several pure metals as well as microcrystalline and amorphous alloys were spun into continuous fibres with circular cross-sections. The microstructural features and the mechanical properties of rapidly quenched fibres and thin wires were also determined.