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TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-healing of deformation damage in underaged Al-Cu-Mg alloys
AU - Hautakangas, S.
AU - Schut, H.
AU - van Dijk, N. H.
AU - Rivera Díaz del Castillo, P. E.J.
AU - van der Zwaag, S.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - The generation and evolution of open volume defects in underaged and T3 Al-Cu-Mg alloy is studied with positron annihilation spectroscopy. During room temperature ageing the positron lifetime in plastically deformed, underaged material approaches the saturation lifetime of the undeformed material. Doppler-broadening results indicate that this behaviour can be attributed to diffusion and clustering of retained solute Cu atoms at the deformation defects, a process of relevance for the introduction of a self-healing mechanism in age-hardenable aluminium alloys.
AB - The generation and evolution of open volume defects in underaged and T3 Al-Cu-Mg alloy is studied with positron annihilation spectroscopy. During room temperature ageing the positron lifetime in plastically deformed, underaged material approaches the saturation lifetime of the undeformed material. Doppler-broadening results indicate that this behaviour can be attributed to diffusion and clustering of retained solute Cu atoms at the deformation defects, a process of relevance for the introduction of a self-healing mechanism in age-hardenable aluminium alloys.
KW - Aluminium alloys
KW - Positron annihilation
KW - Precipitation
KW - Self-healing
U2 - 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2007.11.039
DO - 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2007.11.039
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:40049087159
VL - 58
SP - 719
EP - 722
JO - Scripta Materialia
JF - Scripta Materialia
SN - 1359-6462
IS - 9
ER -