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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 132, Issue -, Pages 119-128Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2017.06.054
Keywords
7085 aluminum alloy; Microstructure; Mechanical properties; Quench-induced precipitation
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0300901]
- Shenghua Yuying Project of Central South University [20130603]
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The effects of quench-induced precipitation on microstructure and mechanical properties of 7085 aluminum alloywere investigated by means of hardness test, tensile test, optical microscopy, conventional and high resolution transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy. Apart from quenchinduced. phase, a plate-like Y phase appears with the decrease of cooling rate from 240 K/s to 3.2 K/s after solution heat treatment.. phase exists primarily in recrystallized grains and has little strengthening effect. Y phase mainly exists in subgrains with a high density of dislocations, it has a high aspect ratio and therefore gives rise to higher hardness and strength for the slowly-cooled specimens after natural aging. After further artificial aging, the aspect ratio of the Y phase decreases and its strengthening effect becomes smaller; moreover, the presence of. and Y phases reduces the quantity of metastable eta' strengthening precipitates and therefore leads to a smaller increment in hardness and strength for the slowly-cooled specimens; consequently, the rapidly-cooled specimens have higher hardness and strength than the slowly-cooled ones. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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