In-situ study of discontinuous precipitation in Al-15 at.% Zn
- Suez Canal Univ., Port Said (Egypt). Faculty of Engineering
- PUC-RJ, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Science
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung, Stuttgart (Germany)
In the present study, attention was focused on in-situ work on discontinuous precipitation in Al-15.0 at.% Zn in a high voltage electron microscope using a hot stage and a video system. The microscope was an AEI instrument with a maximum voltage of 1.25 MV. The voltage used was 500 kV. The scope of the present study was to check if the grain boundary migration in the discontinuous precipitation reaction proceeds in a stop-and-go fashion. From all the observations reported here it can be concluded that the stop-and-go type of grain boundary migration seems to be a very general one. But in many cases it cannot easily experimentally be proved. In case of discontinuous precipitation in Al-15.0 at.% Zn it has been clearly demonstrated by in-situ observations in a high-voltage electron microscope that the reaction front migration occurs in a stop-and-go fashion. Consequently, there is a drastic difference between the average velocity and the instantaneous velocity. The only quantity, which can be determined in traditional experiments, is the average velocity to which the Petermann-Hornbogen equation is adequate.
- OSTI ID:
- 233897
- Journal Information:
- Scripta Materialia, Journal Name: Scripta Materialia Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 34; ISSN 1359-6462; ISSN XZ503X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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