Abstract
Radiant arc-lamp heating offers the potential for direct production of melted sheet products and foil. A focused 300 kW arc lamp provides incident radiant heat at a flux of up to 3kW/crrf. The melting of sheet and foils of metals, intermetallic alloys and composite materials has been achieved. The process offers the advantages of: 1) high efficiency of conversion of electrical energy to absorbed incident energy, 2) the ability to transmit radiant energy through a quartz window enabling environmental isolation of processed material, and 3) processing of large areas of material at rates of the order of 10 cm2/s. Current research efforts include control of grain structure and texture in the solidified sheet and numerical modeling of melting and solidification of sheet materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 147-158 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
| Event | Proceedings of the Technical Sessions presented by the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division of TMS - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Mar 2 2003 → Mar 6 2003 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the Technical Sessions presented by the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division of TMS |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Diego, CA |
| Period | 03/2/03 → 03/6/03 |