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MATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma12162547
Keywords
Al-Mg-Si alloy; Zn; Sn; paint bake; Al-Mg-Si-Zn-Sn alloys; cluster formation; hardening behavior
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- Christian Doppler Research Association-Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Aluminum Alloys
- Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
- National Foundation for Research
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In this study, we demonstrate how Zn and Sn influence hardening behavior and cluster formation during pre-aging and paint bake treatment in Al-Mg-Si alloys via hardness tests, tensile tests, and atom probe tomography. Compared to the standard alloy, the Sn-modified variant shows reduced cluster size and yield strength in the pre-aged condition. During the paint bake cycle, the clusters start to grow very fast and the alloy exhibits the highest strength increment. This behavior is attributed to the high vacancy binding energy of Sn. Adding Zn increases the formation kinetics and the size of Mg-Si co-clusters, generating higher yield strength values for both the pre-aged and paint baked conditions. Simultaneous addition of Zn and Sn creates a synergistic effect and produces an alloy that exhibits moderate strength (and good formability) in the pre-aged condition and accelerated hardening behavior during the paint bake cycle.
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