Surface Tension: Ni-Al, Fe-Ni, Cu-Ni, and Cu-Fe-Ni

The surface tension thermophysical property data is included with the TCS Ni-based Superalloys Database (TCNI) starting with version 10 (TCNI10).

Al-Ni

Calculated surface tension of Al-Ni liquid binary alloy compared to experimental data

Figure 1: Calculated surface tension of Al-Ni liquid binary alloy. The experimental data are taken from [2010Giu].

Cu-Ni

Calculated surface tension of Cu-Ni liquid binary alloy at 1545 K compared to experimental data

Figure 2: Calculated surface tension of Cu-Ni liquid binary alloy at 1545 K. The experimental data are taken from [1996Gor; 2005Bri].

Fe-Ni

Calculated surface tension of Fe-Ni liquid binary alloy at 1773 K compared to experimental data

Figure 3: Calculated surface tension of Fe-Ni liquid binary alloy at 1773 K. The experimental data are taken from [1993Lee; 2005Bri].

Cu-Fe-Ni

Calculated surface tension of Cu-Fe-Ni liquid ternary alloys at 1800 K compared to experimental data

Figure 4: Calculated surface tension of Cu-Fe-Ni liquid ternary alloys at 1800 K. The experimental data are taken from [2006Bri].

References

[1993Lee] H.-K. Lee, M. G. Frohberg, J. P. Hajra, The determination of the surface tensions of liquid iron, nickel and iron-nickel alloys using the electromagnetic oscillating droplet technique. Steel Res. 64, 191–196 (1993).

[1996Gor] E. Gorges, PhD thesis, Bestimmung der Dichte und Oberflächenspannung von levitierten flüssigen Metallegierungen am Beispiel des Systems Kupfer-Nickel (Rheinisch-Westfälische-Technische Hochschule [RWTH] - Aachen (1996).

[2005Bri] J. Brillo, I. Egry, Surface tension of nickel, copper, iron and their binary alloys. J. Mater. Sci. 40, 2213–2216 (2005).

[2006Bri]  J. Brillo, I. Egry, T. Matsushita, Density and Surface Tension of Liquid Ternary Ni–Cu–Fe Alloys. Int. J. Thermophys. 27, 1778–1791 (2006).

[2010Giu] D. Giuranno, A. Tuissi, R. Novakovic, E. Ricci, Surface Tension and Density of Al−Ni Alloys. J. Chem. Eng. Data. 55, 3024–3028 (2010).