Communications Materials (Jun 2021)

Enhanced aging kinetics in Al-Mg-Si alloys by up-quenching

  • Florian Schmid,
  • Philip Dumitraschkewitz,
  • Thomas Kremmer,
  • Peter J. Uggowitzer,
  • Ramona Tosone,
  • Stefan Pogatscher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00164-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Thermal treatments are important for controlling the microstructure and mechanical properties of precipitation-hardened alloys. Here, an up-quenching process enhances clustering kinetics in an Al-Mg-Si alloy, attributed to retained high temperature vacancies assisting diffusion at low temperature.