Discontinuous Precipitation and Dissolution （不连续的沉淀与溶解）.pdf

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2012, 3, 433-441 433 /10.4236/msa.2012.37061 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Discontinuous Precipitation and Dissolution under the Influence of the Plastic Strain and Temperature in Al-15 at.% Zn and Al-30 at.% Zn Alloys Mazouz Hamoudi, Bensaada Said, Mohamed Tewfik, Bouziane, Laboratoire Larhyss Université de Biskra, Biskra, Algerie. Email: Bensaada52@yahoo.fr Received March 15th st th , 2012; revised April 21 , 2012; accepted May 25 , 2012 ABSTRACT The discontinuous precipitation and dissolution in the alloy Al-Zn system has been the subject of many theoretical and experimental investigations that have contributed to the understanding of the different mechanisms which control them. However, many questions remain unanswered because of the complexity of the constituted phases which are affected by the speed of the quenched, deformation, the temperature of homogenization and ageing effect. The purpose of this work is to clarify the effect of temperature and deformation on the mechanisms of these two reactions during ageing of Al-15 at.% Zn and Al-30 at.% Zn alloy. The techniques of analysis used in this respect are the optical microscopy, the X-ray diffraction and the hardness Vickers. Keywords: Alloy Al-Zn; Discontinuous Precipitation; Dissolution; Temperature; Deformation 1. Introduction front migration reaction [4]. In a study by S. Abdou [5] on alloys of this system, it 1.1. Discontinuous Precipitation was found that the nucleation occurs not only at grain The first appearance of the DP was in 1930 [