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Precipitation of Non-spherical Particles in Aluminum Alloys Part II: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Characterization During Aging Treatment of an Al-Mg-Si Alloy

Abstract

This is the second part of the investigation on the precipitation of needle-shaped particles. In part I, two particle aspect ratio-dependent correction factors are introduced to describe the effects of non-spherical precipitate shape on precipitate growth kinetics. In this part II, the two factors are integrated into a CALPHAD-coupled multi-component Kampmann–Wagner numerical model to predict precipitation kinetics of needle-shaped metastable particles during aging treatment of an Al-Mg-Si alloy. The predictions are compared with transmission electron microscopy observations on precipitate number density, volume fraction, and size distribution. Improved agreement is reported, and in particular, the shape of the predicted particle size distribution density function becomes more realistic.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Industry / Metal Production and Processing
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • SINTEF Industry / Materials and Nanotechnology

Year

2015

Published in

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A

ISSN

1073-5623

Publisher

Springer

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