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Excellent creep properties of Mg–Zn–Cu–Gd-based alloy strengthened by quasicrystals and Laves phases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2005

Guangyin Yuan ,
Hidemi Kato ,
Kenji Amiya  and
Akihisa Inoue
Guangyin Yuan*
Affiliation:
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, People’s Republic of China; and Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Hidemi Kato
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Kenji Amiya
Affiliation:
Inoue Superliquid Glass Project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation,Sendai 982-0807, Japan
Akihisa Inoue
Affiliation:
Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

A new type of Mg–Zn–Cu–Gd-based alloy strengthened by quasicrystal and Laves phase was developed. This alloy exhibits much better creep properties compared to AE42(Mg–4 wt% Al–2 wt% rare-earth) alloy, which is the benchmark creep-resistant magnesium die-casting alloy under the compressive creep condition of 180 °C and80 MPa. The new alloy also exhibits high room-temperature mechanical properties close to that of AZ91 alloy. The good mechanical properties are attributed to the special microstructure; the thermally stable icosahedral quasicrystals phase (i-phase) and Laves phase distributed along the grain boundary as a hard skeleton, and some fine β′1 precipitates distributed homogenously on the matrix. The dislocation morphology after the creep test was studied, and the strengthening mechanism was proposed.

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Mechanical propertiesMicrostructureQuasicrystal
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , May 2005 , pp. 1278 - 1286
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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