EP0518536A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour couler des métaux fondus par faisceau électronique dans un lingot - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif pour couler des métaux fondus par faisceau électronique dans un lingot Download PDF

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EP0518536A1
EP0518536A1 EP92304975A EP92304975A EP0518536A1 EP 0518536 A1 EP0518536 A1 EP 0518536A1 EP 92304975 A EP92304975 A EP 92304975A EP 92304975 A EP92304975 A EP 92304975A EP 0518536 A1 EP0518536 A1 EP 0518536A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus employed to control the solidification of metal alloys, specifically Ni-base superalloys, in an electron beam melting (EBM) and ingot casting operation.
  • EBM electron beam melting
  • the ingot structure desirable is one free from structural imperfections.
  • the term imperfection includes but is not limited to laps, cold shuts, porosity, non-uniform grain size, and chemical segregation resulting in cracking or non-uniform mechanical properties.
  • EBM processes provide a means to control the ingot structure and to minimize or eliminate imperfections by controlling heat input to the solidifying ingot.
  • a further desired feature of such ingots is that they be free of oxide inclusions larger than the grain size of the finished component, as such inclusions adversely affect low cycle fatigue properties of the component. It is possible in some EBM processes to float oxide inclusions out of the molten metal prior to the inclusions entering the ingot mold with the molten metal.
  • EBM processes Two basic methods are generally employed in EBM processes for producing metal alloys, namely drip melting and hearth melting.
  • the end product formed in these processes is an ingot solidified from the molten metal in a casting mold.
  • the drip melting process employs a feed stock electrode, which is melted using electron beams, and the molten metal droplets fall on the upper surface of the ingot being cast.
  • the hearth-melting process employs a feedstock melted by electron beams wherein the molten metal is collected in a horizontal trough, or hearth, and is maintained as a liquid in the hearth by use of additional electron beams directed onto the surface of the hearth. This molten metal is then conveyed to a pour notch disposed over the ingot mold.
  • electron beams may further be used to heat the upper surface of the metal in the mold to influence the solidification and cooling of the solidifying ingot. proper cooling of the ingot is required in order to produce the desired alloy solidification structure and surface condition of the ingot.
  • EBM hearth processes have heretofore also been proposed for the purpose of producing ingots with desired internal structures together with acceptable surface conditions, although the processes have not met with complete success.
  • Such prior processes generally involved visual observation of the molten pool surface and temperature measurements of a discrete location or locations made by a two-color pyrometer, while an operator used such information in attempting to manually control the electron beam power and impingement pattern in order to produce a desired pool surface temperature with the object of yielding the desired ingot solidification structure.
  • this method of process monitoring has proved to be inadequate in attaining the required accuracy in controlling the beam power and impingement pattern to produce the desired ingot solidification structures.
  • the objective of the process has been to maintain the pool surface temperature at the center of the mold at a temperature slightly below the liquidus temperature of the alloy, while maintaining the temperature at the edges of the pool slightly above the alloy liquidus temperature.
  • the former temperature was selected in order to create solid crystallites to act as "seeds" from which the ingot would solidify, and the latter temperature was selected in order to prevent cold shuts or laps from forming at the edges of the ingot.
  • This process has the advantage that the central pool temperatures can be monitored visually because the formation of the crystallites provides a visual indication that the temperature is in fact below the alloy liquidus. As discussed above, however, visual observation and manual control of the pool surface temperature do not provide the degree of control accuracy which is required to produce ingots having the desired solidification structures.
  • This method has a further disadvantage in that the temperature gradients produced on the ingot pool surface in practicing this method also give rise to unacceptably rapid fluid convection in the pool.
  • the rapid pool convection has the potential to take undesirable oxide inclusions from the surface and entrap them in the solidifying ingot.
  • the deliberate temperature gradient produced on the surface in this method results in a non-uniform microstructure in the solidified ingot.
  • One further disadvantage which has been noted in association with this approach is that, when the pool temperature employed is below the liquidus, a very shallow ingot pool is evidenced, and the solidification structures produced are exceptionally sensitive to small changes in the energy applied in the form of beam heating, making the process even more difficult to properly execute and control.
  • an apparatus for casting a molten metallic material in ingot form by way of an electron beam melting (EBM) hearth or drip process wherein an imaging radiometer is employed to measure the upper surface temperature of a molten pool in a casting mold, to provide an image related to the temperature distribution across the surface or to provide signals representative of this temperature distribution.
  • the apparatus is equipped with an electron beam gun or guns which are used to direct a stream or streams of electrons at the molten pool surface in order to achieve or maintain a predetermined molten pool surface temperature distribution, this temperature distribution being monitored and verified by the imaging radiometer.
  • an EBM hearth or drip process designed to cast molten metallic material into ingot form in a mold including the steps of measuring the upper surface temperature distribution of the molten pool, and selectively positioning and modulating the intensity of a stream of electrons directed at the molten pool surface in order to maintain a desired preselected temperature distribution on the molten pool surface.
  • Important aspects of the method include maintaining a substantially uniform temperature distribution across substantially the entire molten pool surface. That temperature preferably is maintained slightly above the alloy liquidus temperature of the metallic material being cast into ingot form.
  • the apparatus and method of the present invention include the use of a blackbody reference radiation source disposed adjacent to the molten pool surface in the mold to enable a periodic check of the calibration accuracy of the imaging radiometer and measurement of sight port transmission losses during furnace operation.
  • the electron beam gun control system employed to aim the electron beam or beams at desired areas or regions of the molten pool surface and to modulate the intensity of the stream or streams of electrons is operatively connected to an output of the imaging radiometer, wherein a video display of the detected temperature distribution may be used to assist an operator in directing streams of electrons at particular regions of the molten pool surface in order to maintain the preselected surface temperature profile.
  • the coupling of the output of the imaging radiometer to the electron beam gun control may be operatively connected with means for receiving the output signals and means for automatically controlling the aiming and intensity of the electron beams.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view illustrating a representative embodiment of an EBM hearth apparatus according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the mold section of an EBM furnace, an imaging radiometer, and associated components in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • a hearth 10 comprises hearth bed 12 containing cooling pipes 14 through which water or another cooling liquid may be circulated.
  • the hearth bed in this embodiment comprises a means for transporting the molten metallic material to an ingot mold, as will be described in more detail later in the specification.
  • a bar 16 of metal-alloy to be refined and cast into an ingot is moved continuously toward the hearth in a known manner as indicated by arrow A.
  • the raw material supplied to the hearth 10 may alternatively be in particulate form such as small fragments or compacted briquettes of the material to be cast into an ingot.
  • a first directionally controllable energy input device 18, preferably a conventional electron beam gun 18, is mounted above the hearth and is used to heat and melt the end of the metal alloy bar 16 extending over the hearth bed 12, such that a stream of molten metallic material 20 flows into the hearth bed to create a pool 22 of molten material.
  • the purpose of providing the hearth bed 12 with cooling pipes 14, through which cooling liquid flows, is to form a solid skull 24 of the material on the inner surface of the hearth bed 12 to protect the bed from degradation by the molten material and to minimize the possibility that the molten material will pick up contaminants from the hearth bed.
  • Additional directionally controllable energy input devices represented by electron beam gun 26, may be employed to maintain the material in a molten state and at a desired preselected temperature for supplying the material to the ingot mold 28.
  • a pouring lip 32 is provided in the form of an opening in the hearth wall.
  • the pouring lip 32 permits the molten metallic material to flow out of the hearth into ingot mold 28, in which the metallic material is solidified into an ingot 34 as a result of radiant cooling from the surface of the molten metal as well as by conduction through the ingot mold 28, which preferably has cooling tubes 36 carrying a cooling fluid such as water to cool the mold.
  • the ingot 34 is withdrawn downwardly through an opening 29 in the bottom of mold 28 in the direction of arrow B in a known manner, preferably at a continuous substantially uniform rate. This withdrawal rate is also preferably about the same rate at which the solidification front of the ingot advances upwardly toward the surface of the mold.
  • the temperature of the molten metallic material leaving the hearth to enter the mold is preferably superheated to a temperature above the alloy liquidus temperature, for example, between 30°C and 100°C above the liquidus temperature.
  • a pyrometer may preferably be provided to monitor the temperature of the material at the pour lip 32, in a manner known in the art. This temperature reading may be employed to control the electron beam guns 18, 26, as necessary, either manually or by way of an automatic control system, for example, operatively connected to the pyrometer and the controls for the electron beam guns.
  • the molten metallic material 38 supplied from the pouring lip 32 to the mold forms a pool 40 of molten metal at the top of the mold.
  • the portion adjacent to the inner surface of the mold has a tendency to solidify more rapidly than the center portion of the pool because of the cooling tubes 36 in the adjacent mold.
  • One or more directionally controllable energy input devices are provided, depicted schematically as electron beam guns 42, 44, which are employed to control the surface temperature of the pool 40 in order to control the solidification of the ingot such that a desired preselected solidification structure is produced in the ingot.
  • FIG. 2 the mold section of the EBM furnace of FIG. 1 is shown and described in further detail.
  • the vacuum housing 30 encloses this section as also shown in FIG. 1.
  • Two electron beam guns 42, 44 are disposed on the vacuum housing or chamber, and are adapted to direct streams of electrons at the surface of the pool 40 of molten metallic material.
  • a sight port 46 is provided at the top of the vacuum chamber 30, in order to permit imaging radiometer 48 to view the upper surface of the metal in the ingot mold 28.
  • Sight ports have heretofore been employed in EBM furnaces and preferably contain a lead glass for x-ray protection as well as pyrex, quartz, or similar heat resistant,window materials.
  • the imaging radiometer 48 is preferably of the type disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,687,344, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, the subject matter of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • the imaging radiometer 48 is disposed outside the sight port, and preferably in a position such that the sight path of the radiometer intercepts the surface of the melt pool 40 at a normal incidence, in order to limit the effects of reflections and other spurious sources of light.
  • An imaging radiometer sensor-based melt temperature control has been previously disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,656,331, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, the subject matter of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
  • a blackbody reference source 50 Located inside the chamber 30, adjacent the ingot mold 28 and within the field of view of radiometer 48, is a blackbody reference source 50.
  • a Mikron Instruments Model Blackbody can be modified for operation inside an operating EBM hearth furnace, and would be suitable for use as radiation reference source 50.
  • the blackbody provides a means for periodically checking the calibration accuracy of imaging radiometer 48 and provides the imaging radiometer with means by which changes in the sight port 46 window transmittance may be detected and compensated for during furnace operation. Such changes in transmittance can be caused by condensation or other loss mechanisms.
  • a dip thermocouple 52 is also preferably disposed in a position where it can be employed to provide spot calibrations of the alloy emissivity, the thermocouple 52 being shown in FIG. 2 at a lowered operating position.
  • the calibration made by the thermocouple is preferably only performed at the beginning or at the conclusion of a melt processing run or in conjunction with the collecting of a sample.
  • the use of the imaging radiometer obviates the need for more frequent use of the dip thermocouple, as a continuous measurement of temperature across the entire surface is provided.
  • the imaging radiometer 48 employs a Charge Injection Device (CID) silicon detector array 54, which is filtered externally by spectral band filter 56 to respond to a predetermined range of wavelengths, for example, 700 to 1, 100 nanometers.
  • CID Charge Injection Device
  • the selection of this range may depend on the spectral transmission characteristics of the materials making up the sight port 46, and the choice of usable radiometers may be limited to those which operate in the visible or shorter infrared wavelength regions .
  • a near-infrared neutral density filter 58 is preferably mounted ahead of the spectral band filter in order to expand the response range of the radiometer 48.
  • a lens 60 is provided for the radiometer 48, and optionally, a polarizing filter 62 is disposed between the lens 60 and the sight port 46 to limit reflections from the molten pool 40 surface.
  • a video signal is output from the imaging radiometer 48, which is focused on the surface of the melt pool 40, the signal corresponding to the detected emissivity information.
  • the signal which may conform to either U.S. (e.g. EIA RS-170) or European standard, may be directly displayed or may be processed further.
  • the video signal instead of being directly displayed, is fed to a video analyzer 64.
  • the video analyzer preferably provides a continuous graphical signal intensity, i.e., object temperature and temperature distribution, display or overlay on a video monitor 66.
  • the video analyzer 64 must be calibrated and adjusted where necessary to establish a direct correspondence between the target object (melt pool 40) radiant intensity, as measured by the imaging radiometer, and the graphical display and output signals of the video analyzer.
  • Video monitor 66 preferably displays the temperature and the temperature distribution by using a full-field-of-view image 67 showing in gray tone or pseudocolor the distribution across the entire surface of the melt or mold pool 40, and, in addition, by displaying a graphical profile 69 of the actual temperature measured.
  • a video analyzer which is particularly suitable for use in the present invention is the Model 321 Video Analyzer made by Colorado Video of Boulder, Colorado.
  • the video analyzer also preferably provides a manual and erternal means for directing a pair of cursors 68, one horizontal and one vertical, over the image displayed on the monitor 66 to pinpoint and extract the intensity (measured temperature) of any particular point or pixel in the image displayed on the monitor, and for supplying a voltage which is proportional to the extracted intensity to one or more predetermined erternal devices.
  • an electron gun beam control computer 70 is provided, and is connected to the video analyzer 64, receiving the voltage signal related to the detected pixel intensity through video analyzer output channel 72.
  • the video analyzer 64 preferably has additional input/output channels, represented by channel lines 74, 76 in FIG. 2 which are adapted to provide cursor address signals to erternal devices such as computer 70, and to receive cursor positioning signals from an external device, in this instance, also computer 70.
  • a video color quantizer 78 may be provided to further process the video signal, which may be passed through the video analyzer in the configuration depicted in FIG. 2.
  • the video color quantizer is used to display discrete, user-set, gray scale intensity levels as step-tone colors on the video monitor.
  • the gray-tone display of the video analyzer generally provides improved definition of fine spatial details in the target object, whereas the pseudocolor intensity-mapped display generated by the video color quantizer is useful when performing control adjustment sin the electron gun parameters to bring larger areas of the melt pool surface to a common temperature, which would be indicated in the display by a single solid color.
  • a commercially available video color quantizer which is suitable for use in the present invention is the Colorado Video Model 606.
  • An operator's control console 80 is provided for use in controlling the electron gun parameters, e.g., power or intensity and beam pattern, in maintaining the predetermined temperature profile in the surface of the melt pool 40. If the EBM furnace is intended to operate on a strictly automated basis, the control console may be omitted from the apparatus.
  • the control console 80 is linked with the electron gun beam control computer which relays commands from the control console to the electron guns 42, 44. An operator would manipulate the controls to generate commands to modulate the beam power or intensity as well as to adjust the beam impingement pattern on the mold pool surface.
  • the operation of the apparatus in practicing the method of the present invention for casting molten metallic material in the form of an ingot will now be addressed.
  • the method generally involves heating, melting and transporting the metallic material to a mold means or ingot mold 28, having an opening in the bottom thereof for withdrawing the ingot, the method further including measuring the surface temperature and temperature distribution of the mold pool 40 using an imaging radiometer, controlling the surface temperature distribution to achieve a desired predetermined temperature and distribution, the control being effected by selective positioning of and selective modulation of the intensity of at least one electron beam gun positioned to direct a stream of electrons at the mold pool surface, and cooling and removing the solidified ingot from the mold.
  • the desired predetermined surface temperature and temperature distribution are selected to produce a desired, preselected metallurgical structure in the solidified ingot.
  • the heating, melting and transporting of the metallic material are generally known in the art of EBM hearth melting processes, and for that matter, in EBM drip melting processes, which may also be employed in practicing the present invention.
  • the present invention focuses on the use of an imaging radiometer 48 and its associated components described with respect to FIG. 2 in controlling the temperature of the melt pool surface of the solidifying ingot in order to obtain a desired preselected metallurgical structure in the alloy ingot.
  • the method for casting a molten metallic material in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is primarily directed to producing ingots of a nickel-base superalloy, however, the method may also be practiced with other metallic materials, for example, titanium-base alloys, zirconium-base alloys, niobium-base alloys, cobalt-base alloys, iron-base alloys, and intermetallic aluminide alloys
  • a second important aspect of the present invention is that the temperature of the surface of the mold pool is desirably maintained above the liquidus temperature of the alloy being cast into ingot form.
  • the temperature in the central region of the mold pool is preferably maintained between zero and 10°C above the alloy liquidus, although it would be possible to perform the method of the present invention using a mold pool temperature which is up to 30°C higher than the alloy liquidus, and possibly even higher.
  • the temperature at the edges of the mold pool is preferably maintained at a temperature no lower than that of the central region. Any temperature differential between the central region and the edges of the mold pool will, however, be sufficiently small in order to prevent excessive fluid convection.
  • the imaging radiometer 48 enables both of these important aspects to be achieved, as the imaging radiometer continuously monitors and produces an image of the entire mold pool surface, either in gray-tone or pseudocolor, on a monitor. Because the imaging radiometer detects the radient emission from the alloy in the near-infrared range (about 700-1100 nanometers), there is no dependence on any visually determinable condition in measuring the surface temperature and the surface temperature distribution. The dependence in prior known processes on visual indications monitored by an operator required the mold pool temperatures employed in the process to generally be below the alloy liquidus temperature.
  • Automatic or manual control of the surface temperature distribution may be employed in the method of the present invention.
  • the operator edjusts the operating parameters of the electron beam guns 42, 44, primarily modulation of the beam power and the beam impingement pattern, using the video monitor 66 display in achieving and maintaining the desired melt pool temperature and substantially uniform temperature distribution.
  • the EBM furnace may alternatively be provided with the capability to automatically control the electron beam guns 42, 44 by way of computer 70 and real-time sensors (not shown).
  • the imaging radiometer sensor system In an automatic operating mode, the imaging radiometer sensor system must have the capability to provide the electron beam control hardware with a signal related to the detected intensity (temperature) at any selected location in the viewed scene. This can be accomplished by a system analogous to the signal 72 being supplied to computer 70 by the video analyzer 64, wherein the information detected by imaging radiometer 48 is automatically or selectively scanned to obtain the intensity signal at the location or locations in the viewed scene.
  • a nearly isothermal upper metal surface may thus be attained by adjusting the beam power or intensity and beam impingement pattern in either the manual or automatic operating modes.
  • some heat input will always be necessary to compensate for the heat lost from the pool due to radiation.
  • the heat of fusion released at the ingot solidification front more than compensates for the heat conducted down the ingot.
  • Meat lost by conduction through the water cooled ingot mold 28 may be compensated for by shifting the beam distribution toward the edges of the melt pool 40, and as indicated previously, it may be desired to maintain a slightly higher temperature at the edges to minimize or prevent the formation of cold shuts and tearing or cracking of the ingot surface during the withdrawal or extraction of the ingot from the mold.
  • a further consideration in controlling the surface temperature and distribution is that when an EBM hearth apparatus is employed, the molten metal pouring into the mold is generally at a higher temperature than the rest of the pool, and therefore less beam power will be required in that region.
  • the ingots produced have a more consistent and reproducible internal structure and surface quality.
  • desired metallurgical structures which may be achieved include an equiaxed dendritic fine grain structure, a columnar dendritic grain structure, and a structure containing regions having an equiaxed dendritic fine grain structure and regions containing columnar dendritic grain structure.
  • preferred metallurgical structures which may be achieved using a titanium-base alloy include an equiaxed grain structure, a columnar grain structure, and a combination of regions of equiaxed and columnar grain structures.
  • imaging radiometers could be employed in the apparatus and method of the present invention, provided that they operate in wavelength regions compatible with EBM processes and are compatible with sight port materials employed in an apparatus of this type.
  • Commercially available imaging radiometers employing detectors sensitive to mid-infrared wavelengths in the range of two to 14 micrometers or portions thereof, while not preferred, could be employed in the present invention.
  • Sensors employing charge-coupled devices, charge-injection devices, vidicon and other solid-state or vacuum tube television-like cameras operating in the visible wavelengths may have sufficient sensitivity to be employed in lieu of the preferred imaging radiometer described above.
  • Video Analyzer and Video Color Quantizer in the imaging radiometer sensor system could also be performed by a Video Frame Grabber (i.e., video analog to digital converter with internal digital frame storage capability) and appropriate software operating in a computer dedicated to video image processing or integrated with the process control computer.
  • Video Frame Grabber i.e., video analog to digital converter with internal digital frame storage capability

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