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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 784, Issue -, Pages 1017-1025Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.01.104
Keywords
B206 Al alloy; Solid-state phase transformation; Incipient melting; In-situ neutron diffraction; Heat treatment
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- Natural Sciences and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [PDF-471143-2015]
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The B206 Al alloy is a commonly used automotive alloy for powertrain, suspension and chassis components. Heat treatment is an important post-casting process used to improve the mechanical properties of cast components. Improvement of the heat treatment process requires a better understanding of phase evolution of Al2Cu as a function of temperature. In this study, a novel application of in-situ neutron diffraction was used to examine precipitation, dissolution and incipient melting characteristics of Al2Cu as a function of temperature during sample heating. Additional experiments, where samples were quenched at each examined temperature and analyzed in the SEM, were performed to confirm the reason for changes in the amount of Al2Cu at each stage. The results show that neutron diffraction effectively measured Al2Cu precipitation at temperatures between 200 and 440 degrees C. At temperatures between 460 and 520 degrees C, the reduction in Al2Cu peak intensity was due to dissolution of precipitates and interdendritic Al2Cu, while above 530 degrees C, it was primarily due to incipient melting. This research suggests that neutron diffraction is an effective technique in the in-situ analysis of solid-state and solid-to-liquid state phase transformations during heating. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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