Precipitation microstructure in Al-Si-Mg-Mn alloy with Zr additions
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T1 - Precipitation microstructure in Al-Si-Mg-Mn alloy with Zr additions
AU - Vončina, Maja
AU - Medved, Jožef
AU - Kores, Stanislav
AU - Xie, Pan
AU - Schumacher, Peter
AU - LI, Jiehua
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - The precipitation microstructure of Al-10Si-0.5 Mg-0.5Mn (wt%) alloys with different Zr additions was investigated. The β-type (i.e. Mg 2Si) phase was observed to be dominant in the precipitation microstructure. Furthermore, the Q-Al 5Cu 2Mg 8Si 6 phase and the π-Al 8Mg 3FeSi 6 phase were also observed to be the dominant thermodynamically stable precipitates at 180 °C. The main strengthening effect can be attributed to the Q-Al 5Cu 2Mg 8Si 6 and β-type (i.e. Mg 2Si) precipitates due to the fact that the π-Al 8Mg 3FeSi 6 phase is relatively large in size, plate-like in morphology, and low in number density and thereby volume fraction. More importantly, the Zr addition into the Al-Si-Mg-Mn alloys causes the precipitation to start at a lower temperature during ageing, which can be due to the grain refinement effect by Zr addition and thereby enhanced diffusion. This paper provides some insights in precipitation microstructure and thereby shortening the ageing treatment at a relatively low ageing temperature.
AB - The precipitation microstructure of Al-10Si-0.5 Mg-0.5Mn (wt%) alloys with different Zr additions was investigated. The β-type (i.e. Mg 2Si) phase was observed to be dominant in the precipitation microstructure. Furthermore, the Q-Al 5Cu 2Mg 8Si 6 phase and the π-Al 8Mg 3FeSi 6 phase were also observed to be the dominant thermodynamically stable precipitates at 180 °C. The main strengthening effect can be attributed to the Q-Al 5Cu 2Mg 8Si 6 and β-type (i.e. Mg 2Si) precipitates due to the fact that the π-Al 8Mg 3FeSi 6 phase is relatively large in size, plate-like in morphology, and low in number density and thereby volume fraction. More importantly, the Zr addition into the Al-Si-Mg-Mn alloys causes the precipitation to start at a lower temperature during ageing, which can be due to the grain refinement effect by Zr addition and thereby enhanced diffusion. This paper provides some insights in precipitation microstructure and thereby shortening the ageing treatment at a relatively low ageing temperature.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.matchar.2019.109820
DO - 10.1016/j.matchar.2019.109820
M3 - Article
VL - 155.2019
JO - Materials characterization
JF - Materials characterization
SN - 1044-5803
IS - September
M1 - 109820
ER -