Abstract
The influence of Zirconium on the grain refinement performance of Al–Ti–C master alloys and the effect mechanism has been studied in this paper. The experimental results show that Zr not only results in poisoning the Al–Ti–B master alloy, but also poisons the Al–Ti–C master alloys. The poisoning effect is more obvious at higher melting temperature. When 0.12%Zr is added into the melt, the grain refinement performance of Al–5Ti–0.4C refiner with 0.2% addition level absolutely disappears at 800 °C. The experimental results also show that it is difficult to refine the commercial purity Al containing 0.15%Zr by Al–5Ti–0.4C master alloy. Further experiments show that the Zr element can interact with both TiAl3 and TiC phases. If both of them are present, Zr preferentially reacts with TiAl3 phase.
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