GIURANNO D.

The design of processing routes involving the presence of the liquid phase is mainly associated with the knowledge of its surface and transport properties. Despite this need, due to experimental difficulties related to high temperature measurements of metallic melts, for many alloy systems neither thermodynamic nor thermophysical properties...

To properly design and optimize liquid-assisted processes, such as reactive infiltration for fabricating lightweight and corrosion resistant SiC/TiSi2 composites, the extensive knowledge about the interfacial phenomena taking place when liquid Si-rich Si-Ti alloys are in contact with glassy carbon (GC) is of primary importance. To this end, the...

The surface tension of liquid Ag–Cu eutectic alloy has been measured in a wide range of oxygen partial pressures using two different methods: the constrained drop method and the electromagnetic levitation method. In order to investigate the influence of oxygen potential on the surface tension of the Ag–40Cu (at.%) eutectic alloy, the oxygen...