Heterogeneous precipitation during homogenization cooling in Al–Mg–Si alloys

Shuaishuai Qin*, Hui Xu Zhou, Xu Huang, Weidong Huang, Guanglei Lin, Taiki Tsuchiya, Seungwon Lee, Kenji Matsuda

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Abstract

“Boundaries” are frequently observed within the grains during homogenization/solution cooling of Al-Mg-Si billets. In this work, we confirmed that the formation of the “boundaries” is due to a complex but interesting heterogeneous precipitation behavior. This heterogeneous precipitation contains a high temperature behavior and a low temperature behavior, which is rarely observed during aging treatment with deformation induced dislocations. During the high temperature stage of cooling (>350 °C), the rod/lath-like precipitates formed at the dislocations tend to grow along two or three 〈1 0 0〉Al directions, however, as the temperature decreases to near 200 °C, the precipitates tend to line up and parallel to each other, and the string-like precipitates appear along the dislocations between the precipitates.

Original languageEnglish
Article number134054
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume339
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023/05/15

Keywords

  • Cooling rate
  • Dislocation
  • Heterogeneous precipitation
  • Homogenization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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