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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/12/2/025003
Keywords
Ca-Mg-Zn; phase diagrams; diffusion; diffraction; electron microprobe
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- General Motors of Canada Ltd
- NSERC
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Nine diffusion couples and 32 key samples were prepared to map the phase diagram of the Ca-Mg-Zn system. Phase relations and solubility limits were determined for binary and ternary compounds using scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The crystal structure of the ternary compounds was studied by XRD and electron backscatter diffraction. Four ternary intermetallic (IM) compounds were identified in this system: Ca3MgxZn15-x (4.6 <= x <= 12 at 335 degrees C, IM1), Ca14.5Mg15.8Zn69.7 (IM2), Ca2Mg5Zn13 (IM3) and Ca1.5Mg55.3Zn43.2 (IM4). Three binary compounds were found to have extended solid solubility into ternary systems: CaZn11, CaZn13 and Mg2Ca form substitutional solid solutions where Mg substitutes for Zn atoms in the first two compounds, and Zn substitutes for both Ca and Mg atoms in Mg2Ca. The isothermal section of the Ca-Mg-Zn phase diagram at 335 degrees C was constructed on the basis of the obtained experimental results. The morphologies of the diffusion couples in the Ca-Mg-Zn phase diagram at 335 degrees C were studied. Depending on the terminal compositions of the diffusion couples, the two-phase regions in the diffusion zone have either a tooth-like morphology or contain a matrix phase with isolated and/or dendritic precipitates.
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