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Iranian Journal of Materials Science Engineering Vol. 10, Number 3, September 2013 THERMAL ANALYSIS AND KINETICS OF THE PRECIPITATION IN WROUGHT Al-Mg, Al-Mg-Sc AND Al-Mg-Sc-Me (Me=Zr, Ti) ALLOYS M. S. Kaiser * mskaiser@iat.buet.ac.bd Received: January2013 Accepted: June 2013 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh AbstractPrecipitation behaviour of wrought Al-6Mg alloys with ternary scandium and quaternary zirconium and titanium has been studied. Hardness measurements and resistivity studies are employed to assess the precipitation behaviour of scandium doped Al-6Mg alloy without or with quaternary additions of zirconium and titanium. Further, the kinetics of precipitations are studied by differential scanning calorimetric technique. Scandium has been observed to form fine coherent Al3Sc precipitates during ageing and these are responsible for strengthening of the alloys. The precipitation kinetics of Al 3Sc depends on the diffusion of scandium in aluminium. Presence of fine coherent precipitates of Al 3Sc impedes the migration of dislocations and increase the recovery temperature. The kinetics of recrystallisation is also delayed. Keywords Trace addition, precipitation hardening, resistivity and activation energy. 1. INTRODUCTION Mg-Sc alloy. On the other hand trace quaternary addition of zirconium in Al-Mg-Sc alloy has Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has slowed down its phase decomposition process. often been used for characterization of The completion of precipitation is found to have precipitates in Al-alloys [1-3]. This technique has been