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Hexagonal Lattice in Mg Alloys

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MSE-422: Advanced metallurgy

This course covers the metallurgy, processing and properties of modern high-performance metals and alloys (e.g. advanced steels, Ni-base, Ti-base, High Entropy Alloys etc.). In addition, the principles of computational alloy design as well as approaches fo ...

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This lecture discusses the hexagonal lattice structure in magnesium and titanium, focusing on the c/a ratio, slip systems, and dislocation motion. It also covers the deformation behavior of polycrystalline magnesium and its alloys at different temperatures, emphasizing the role of critical resolved sheer stress and diffusion-controlled mechanisms. Furthermore, it explores strengthening mechanisms in materials, such as grain boundary strengthening, solid solution strengthening, and precipitation hardening. The lecture delves into the concept of long-range order in intermetallic structural alloys, the lattice structure of NiAl, and the brittleness of these alloys at room temperature. It concludes with a failure case analysis of undercarriage trunnion failure and a broken wire cutter, highlighting fracture mechanisms, stress analysis, metallographic evaluations, and conclusions drawn from the investigations.

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Christian Leinenbach

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Ontological neighbourhood

Chemical engineering

Materials science: Alloys, Deformation of materials

Chemistry

Organic chemistry: Organometallic chemistry

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Precipitation hardening, also called age hardening or particle hardening, is a heat treatment technique used to increase the yield strength of malleable materials, including most structural alloys of aluminium, magnesium, nickel, titanium, and some steels, stainless steels, and duplex stainless steel. In superalloys, it is known to cause yield strength anomaly providing excellent high-temperature strength. Precipitation hardening relies on changes in solid solubility with temperature to produce fine particles of an impurity phase, which impede the movement of dislocations, or defects in a crystal's lattice.

Grain boundary strengthening

In materials science, grain-boundary strengthening (or Hall–Petch strengthening) is a method of strengthening materials by changing their average crystallite (grain) size. It is based on the observation that grain boundaries are insurmountable borders for dislocations and that the number of dislocations within a grain has an effect on how stress builds up in the adjacent grain, which will eventually activate dislocation sources and thus enabling deformation in the neighbouring grain as well.

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An aluminium alloy (or aluminum alloy; see spelling differences) is an alloy in which aluminium (Al) is the predominant metal. The typical alloying elements are copper, magnesium, manganese, silicon, tin, nickel and zinc. There are two principal classifications, namely casting alloys and wrought alloys, both of which are further subdivided into the categories heat-treatable and non-heat-treatable. About 85% of aluminium is used for wrought products, for example rolled plate, foils and extrusions.

Solid solution strengthening

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