Articles tagged "Aluminium alloys"

The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Atom probe tomography of early stage clustering in Al alloys
Stefan Pogatscher (1), Phillip Dumitraschkewitz (1), Stephan S.A. Gerstl (2)
1. Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Leoben, Autriche 2. Scientific Center of Optical and Electron Microscopy, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Suisse
Nano-scaled early stage Si or Mg containing clusters in Al-Mg-Si alloys are experimentally extremely difficult to observe and atom probe tomography (APT) is the only…
The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Phase mapping of 2xxx-series aluminium alloys by scanning precession electron diffraction
Jonas Kristoffer Sunde (1), Sigurd Wenner (1), Antonius T.J. van Helvoort (1), Duncan N. Johnstone (2), Paul A. Midgley (2), Randi Holmestad (1)
1. Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norvège 2. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, Royaume Uni
2xxx-series Al alloys are Cu containing age-hardenable alloys, which are strengthened by numerous metastable precipitates formed during heat treatment. Many different precipitates exist, some of…
The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
On the influence of the elemental addition Au on the semi-coherent interfaces in an Al-Cu alloy
Yiqiang Chen (1, 2), Zezhong Zhang (1), Chen Zhen (3, 2), Amalia Tsalanidis (1), Matthew Weyland (1, 2), Findlay Scott (3), Allen Les (4), Jiehua Li (5), Laure Bourgeois (1, 2)
1. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australie 2. Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy, Monash University, Clayton, Australie 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, Australie 4. School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australie 5. Chair of Casting Research, Montanuniversität Leoben, Leoben, Autriche
Aluminium light alloys are employed in commercial automotive and aerospace applications due to their high specific strength and corrosion resistance [1]. Precipitation hardening is one…
The 16th European Microscopy Congress 2016
Misfit of coherent precipitate phases in Al alloys measured by scanning transmission electron microscopy
Sigurd Wenner (1), Randi Holmestad (1)
1. Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norvège
The age-hardenable Al–Mg–Si alloy system is strengthened by needle-shaped β” phase precipitates that develop during heat treatment. The phase is fully coherent with the Al…