Ultrafast artificial aging of Al-Mg-Si alloys
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- Materials Center Leoben Forschungs GmbH
- Institute of Materials Science and Technology
- AMAG Austria Metall AG
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Abstract
This study investigates the effect of trace Sn additions on the artificial aging of an Al–Mg–Si alloy at unconventionally high temperatures (> 210 °C), where such additions generate both ultrafast aging kinetics and superior peak hardness. The study shows that the effect of Sn is comparable to the influence of natural pre-aging on high temperature artificial aging, and explains this by solute-vacancy interactions, proposing that during artificial aging Sn-vacancy pairs contribute to diffusion and/or Sn retards the annihilation of quenched-in vacancies.
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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 148-151 |
Journal | Scripta materialia |
Volume | 112 |
Publication status | Published - 2016 |