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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 797, Issue -, Pages 26-38Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.05.055
Keywords
Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Zn-Mn alloy; Precipitation behavior; Kinetics; Mechanical properties; Microstructure
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0300801]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51871029, 51571023, 51301016]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [2172038]
- Beijing Laboratory of Metallic Materials and Processing for Modern Transportation [FRF-SD-B-005B]
- China Scholarship Council
- University of California, Irvine
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We report on a systematic study of the influence of three different treatment pathways on the precipitation behavior of Al-Mg-Si-Cu-(Zn)-Mn alloys involving microstructure characterization, property measurements and modelling. The results reveal that the formation of coarse Mg2Si and Si particles in a Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Mn alloy during annealing at 400 degrees C can be avoided by adding Zn; the latter can improve the nucleation of precipitates, and increase the number density of beta '' precipitates in the Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloy in both the non-isothermal and isothermal peak aging states, corresponding to a decrease in the activation energies of precipitation calculated on the basis of a modified AJM kinetics model, and finally resulting in an enhanced age hardening response in Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Zn-Mn. Moreover, although beta '', Q' and beta' precipitates with structures similar to those of Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Mn alloys, and an absence of Mg-Zn precipitates were observed in the Zn-containing Al-Mg-Si-Cu-Mn alloy after different treatment pathways, the incorporation of Zn atoms in the precipitates formed in the Zn-containing alloy was confirmed using APT characterization and the changes in the lattice parameter. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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