STUDY ON THE KINETICS OF PHASE TRANSFORMATION β→α IN THE HOMOGENEOUS HEAT TREATMENT OF Al-Mg-Si SERIES ALLOYS

  • CAO Lingyong ,
  • GUO Mingxing ,
  • CUI Hua ,
  • CAI Yuanhua ,
  • ZHANG Qiaoxia ,
  • HU Xiaoqian ,
  • ZHANG Jishan
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  • 1) State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing,100083
    2) School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083

Received date: 2012-10-15

  Revised date: 2013-01-09

  Online published: 2013-04-11

Abstract

According to the present experiment results about the transformation from βAlFeSi to α-Al(FeMn)Si phase in Al-Mg-Si series alloys, the model and kinetics of phase transformation,and microstructure evolution at 555 ℃ were systematically investigated. The results show that, the homogeneous temperature T can give a significant effect on the transformation kinetics, and with increasing T, the transformation rate increases fast. The nucleus radius of α phase only affects the breakthrough time along the thickness direction of β phase. The distance l between twoα phases mainly has an influence on the dissolving of rim for β phase. The thickness of β phase normally has a greatest influence on the phase transformation β→α,especially for the breakthrough stage of β phase, with increasing the thickness of β phase,the main transformation with longer time in the whole phase transformation process can changes from rim dissolving of β phase to breakthrough along the thickness direction of β phase. The breakthrough time of β phases with the thickness of 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3μm is above 5, 10 and 15 h, respectively, which corresponds with the real experiment results. In addition, if the thickness of β phase is smaller than 0.3μm, the transformation rate f(α) easily reaches above 0.9 after homogeneous heat treatment at 555 ℃ for 16--24 h. Therefore, the importance of optimizing casting process to make sure the thickness of β phase below 0.3μm, is the same as the homogeneous heat treatment for the better controlling the phase transformation β→α.

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CAO Lingyong , GUO Mingxing , CUI Hua , CAI Yuanhua , ZHANG Qiaoxia , HU Xiaoqian , ZHANG Jishan . STUDY ON THE KINETICS OF PHASE TRANSFORMATION β→α IN THE HOMOGENEOUS HEAT TREATMENT OF Al-Mg-Si SERIES ALLOYS[J]. Acta Metall Sin, 2013 , 29(4) : 428 -434 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1037.2012.00608

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