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Investigation of discontinuous precipitation upon age-hardening of invar-based Sn alloy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2017

Maryam Akhlaghi ,
Reza Rahimi ,
Christina Schröder ,
Olga Fabrichnaya  and
Olena Volkova
Maryam Akhlaghi*
Affiliation:
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany
Reza Rahimi
Affiliation:
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany
Christina Schröder
Affiliation:
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany
Olga Fabrichnaya
Affiliation:
Institute of Materials Science, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany
Olena Volkova
Affiliation:
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg 09599, Germany
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: mry.akhlaghi@gmail.com
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Abstract

Age-hardening of homogenized and cold-rolled invar-based Sn alloys results in the development of continuously-formed (CP) and discontinuously-formed (DP) Ni3Sn2 precipitates. In situ investigation of the DP reaction front (RF) velocity (V) revealed a nonsteady-state behavior upon early aging stages followed by a constant V after prolonged aging. The reason for the initial nonsteady-state behavior was experimentally studied and attributed to the reduction of matrix Sn-supersaturation ahead of the DP RF as a result of the simultaneous CP coarsening (in homogenized specimen) or the CP increased volume fraction (in cold-rolled specimen). A similar trend of V variation in the homogenized specimen was obtained after the modification of the original Hornbogen model for the nonsteady-state DP growth kinetics. In general, variations of the transformed matrix fraction via the DP reaction suggest the faster kinetics of this reaction in cold-rolled specimen as compared to the homogenized one due to the existence of more nucleation sites induced by the cold deformation.

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second phaseskineticsscanning electron microscopy (SEM)
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 32 , Issue 20 , 27 October 2017 , pp. 3842 - 3853
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Contributing Editor: Jürgen Eckert

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