Determining the cooling rate of a rapidly-solidified (RS) technique subject
ively is a prerequisite of knowing the RS technique, and it is difficult. M
odel of heat transfer is constructed in this paper in order to calculate co
oling rates of rapidly-solidified Ti48Al alloy. Rapid solidification techni
que utilized is the plasma rotating electrode process (PREP hereafter). The
results show that: the cooling rate of PREP is at the scope of 10(2)simila
r to 10(3) K/s.