Precipitation under cyclic strain in solution-treated Al4wt%Cu II: precipitation behavior
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA
Solution-treated Al-4wt%Cu was strain-cycled at ambient temperature and above, and the precipitation behavior investigated by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). In the temperature range 100{sup o}C to 200{sup o}C, precipitation of {Theta}' appears to have been suppressed, and precipitation of theta-prime promoted. Anomalously rapid growth of precipitates appears to have been facilitated by a vacancy super-saturation generated by cyclic strain, with a diminishing effect observed at higher temperatures due to the recovery of non-equilibrium vacancy concentrations. The {Theta}' precipitates generated under cyclic strain are considerably smaller and more finely dispersed than those typically produced via quench-aging due to their heterogeneous nucleation on disloctions, and possess a low aspect ratio and rounded edges of the broad faces, due to the introduction of ledges into the growing precipitates by dislocation cutting. Frequency effects indicate that dislocation motion, rather than extremely small precipitate size, is responsible for the reduction in aspect ratio.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 960887
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-08-06362; LA-UR-08-6362; TRN: US201008%%796
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: TMS 2009 ; February 15, 2009 ; San Francisco, CA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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