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Influence of Thermocyclic Treatment on the Anneal Hardening Effect of CuAl10 Alloy 1 1 1 Svetlana Nestorović , Desimir Marković , Ljubica Ivanić , Ivana Rangelov1 1 University of Belgrade, Technical Faculty Bor, VJ 12, 19210 Bor, Serbia and Montenegro Keywords: CuAl10 copper alloy, anneal hardening effect, thermocyclic treatment Abstract. This paper reports the results of investigations on the influence of the so called thermocyclic treatment on the anneal hardening effect of the copper-based CuAl10 alloy. The quenched samples were subjected to cold rolling of 20, 40 and 60% in reduction, followed by annealing below the recrystallization temperature. Anneal hardening effect was observed in the temperature range between 180 and 300oC and was followed by an increase in the hardness and electrical conductivity. The exothermic heat effect was found in the same temperature range where the anneal hardening was detected. These investigations showed that the thermocyclic treatment increased the intensity of anneal hardening effect. Introduction The last few years have seen a major effort devoted to the exploration of copper-based alloys in the search for improvements of properties such as strength, conductivity, and stress retention at high temperature [1]. One of the processes which has the influence on the increase of mechanical characteristics is a so called thermocyclic treatment [2] consisting of alternating annealing and cooling of the supersaturated solid solution up to the recrystallization temperature of copper alloys. The mechanism responsible