Discontinuous precipitation in a Cd-6 at.% Ag alloy
- Indian Inst. of Technology, Kharagpur (India). Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Dept.
- Inst. fuer Metallkunde, Stuttgart (Germany)
Discontinuous precipitation (DP) in a Cd-6 at.% Ag alloy has been investigated for the first time. The precipitate phase maintains a lamellar morphology and statistically constant interlamellar spacing under a given isothermal condition in the temperature range studied (333--523 K). The interlamellar spacing increases with an increase in isothermal temperature. The reaction front velocity registers a typical C-curve variation with the inverse of temperature. The reaction rate is maximum at 470 K. The predicted upper limit of DP occurrence in this alloy is 23 K lower than the concerned equilibrium solvus temperature. Continuous precipitation accompanies DP at all temperatures, especially beyond a certain time, and adversely affects the growth kinetics of DP colonies by reducing the local chemical driving force and/or posing physical hindrance to the reaction front migration. An extensive kinetic analysis of DP using the models by Turnbull, Aaronson and Liu, and Petermann and Hornbogen has yielded the grain boundary chemical diffusivity data in Cd-6 At.% Ag for the first time, the activation energy of which lies in the range 55--77 kJ/mol.
- OSTI ID:
- 415443
- Journal Information:
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 44, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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