Aluminium-Copper-Magnesium.PDF

Al-Mg-Cu, ID: 10.12587.2.20 MSIT? Workplace, March 24, 2003 Aluminium - Copper - Magnesium Günter Effenberg and Alan Prince, updated by Olena Bieloborodova, Lubomyr Gulay, Frederick H. Hayes, Mireille G. Harmelin, Hans Leo Lukas and Tamara Yanson Introduction This system was previously evaluated in this series by [91Eff]. Their evaluation has been used by two groups as the basis for thermodynamic assessments and phase diagram calculations [93Zuo, 96Zuo, 97Che] and [98Buh, 2000Jan]. Some experiments have been performed to support these calculations [95Hua, 95Kim, 95Soa, 98Fau] and [99Fau]. The equilibria in the Al-Cu-Mg system are complicated by the existence of six ternary phases. There is need for experiments to l clarify the ternary equilibria involving the three Laves phases, 1-3, which have clearly been l identified as three separate phases. The 1 phase with a Cu2Mg type structure is a solution phase of the binary Cu2Mg compound with replacement of the Cu atoms by Al along the 33.3 at.% Mg l section. At a composition close to the AlCu3Mg2 formula, the 1 phase melts congruently at l ~910°C. Further replacement of Cu by Al stabilizes the 2 phase with a MgNi2 type structure l and then the 3 phase with a MgZn2 type structure. A variety of polytype structures with different atom layer stacking sequences have been observed between the MgNi2 and MgZn2 type l phases. The 2-3 phases appear to be formed by peritectic reaction and each Laves phase is associated with a region in which it forms as the primary phase on solidification of melts. Four additional ternary compounds have also been studied ex