Effects of Pre-Ageing Treatment on Subsequent Artificial Ageing Characteristics of an Al-1.01Mg-0.68Si-1.78Cu Alloy

Lizi He , Haitao Zhang and Jianzhong Cui Key Lab of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China

摘 要：The influences of pre-ageing temperature and natural ageing time on subsequent artificial age hardening behavior and precipitation sequence of new type Al-1.01Mg-0.68Si-1.78Cu alloy were investigated by hardness test, differential scanning calorimetry （DSC） test and transmission electronic microscopy （TEM） observations. When pre-ageing temperature is 20℃ （natural ageing）, the peak hardness of subsequent artificial aged alloy is lower than that of T6 treated alloy （negative effect）, while a positive effect appears when pre-ageing temperature is above 80℃. The size of needlelike β-precipitate in subsequent artificial aged alloy is much coarser when pre-ageing temperature is 20℃, which causes a decrease in peak-hardness. The positive effect occurs again when natural ageing time is longer than 3 weeks. There are seven exothermic peaks in DSC curve of as-quenched alloy, while the number and height of exothermic peak decrease with increasing pre-ageing temperature and natural ageing time.

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