Recovery of deformation substructure and coarsening of particles on annealing severely plastically deformed Al-Mg-Si alloy and analysis of strengthening mechanisms

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 329-342

  Gutierrez Urrutia, I ^a   Munoz Morris M A ^a   Morris, David G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; HEAT TREATMENT; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRESSING (FORMING); STRENGTHENING (METAL);

COARSENING; DEFORMATION SUBSTRUCTURE; EQUAL CHANNEL ANGULAR PRESSING (ECAP); MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 33644511410     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0063     Document Type: Article

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