Precipitation strengthening in an ultralight magnesium alloy

Solution treatment and quenching can strengthen magnesium-lithium-aluminium alloys, but this strength decreases with ageing. Here, the authors show this is due to semi-coherent nanoparticle precipitation followed by coarsening, and control the lattice mismatch to stabilise the microstructure.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Song Tang, Tongzheng Xin, Wanqiang Xu, David Miskovic, Gang Sha, Zakaria Quadir, Simon Ringer, Keita Nomoto, Nick Birbilis, Michael Ferry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08954-z