TY - JOUR A1 - Griesche, Axel A1 - Zhang, B. A1 - Solórzano, E. A1 - Garcia-Moreno, F. T1 - Note: X-ray radiography for measuring chemical diffusion in metallic melts N2 - A x-ray radioscopy technique for measuring in situ chemical diffusion coefficients in metallic melts is presented. The long-capillary diffusion measurement method is combined with imaging techniques using microfocus tubes and flat panel detectors in order to visualize and quantitatively analyze diffusive mixing of two melts of different chemical composition. The interdiffusion coefficient as function of temperature and time is obtained by applying Fick’s diffusion laws. Tracking the time dependence of the mean square penetration depth of the mixing process allows to detect changes in the mass transport caused by convective flow. The possibility to sort out convective mass transport contributions from analysis enhances significantly the accuracy compared to the conventional long-capillary diffusion measurement method with postmortem analysis. The performance of this novel diffusion measurement method with x-ray radiography technique is demonstrated by a diffusion experiment in an Al-Ni melt. KW - Diffusion KW - Metal KW - Aluminium KW - Nickel KW - Melt KW - In-situ KW - Radiography KW - Capillary KW - Aluminium-alloys KW - Chemical analysis KW - Chemical interdiffusion KW - Convection KW - Liquid alloys KW - Mass transfer KW - Nickel alloys KW - X-ray apparatus PY - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3427256 SN - 0034-6748 SN - 1089-7623 VL - 81 SP - 056104-1 - 056104-3 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY AN - OPUS4-21333 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -