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This document summarizes a study on the effect of trace additions of tin (Sn) on the precipitation kinetics and microstructural phases of aluminum-copper-magnesium alloys. Differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction analysis were used to study the precipitation reaction and phases that formed with varying Sn content. Microstructural characterization found that additions of up to 0.06% Sn favored the precipitation reaction, increasing the size and volume fraction of the θ-phase and decreasing the peak temperature and activation energy. Trace amounts of Sn were shown to effectively control the precipitation kinetics, phases that form, and resulting microstructure of the aluminum alloy system.

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This document summarizes a study on the effect of trace additions of tin (Sn) on the precipitation kinetics and microstructural phases of aluminum-copper-magnesium alloys. Differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction analysis were used to study the precipitation reaction and phases that formed with varying Sn content. Microstructural characterization found that additions of up to 0.06% Sn favored the precipitation reaction, increasing the size and volume fraction of the θ-phase and decreasing the peak temperature and activation energy. Trace amounts of Sn were shown to effectively control the precipitation kinetics, phases that form, and resulting microstructure of the aluminum alloy system.

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Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-022-02234-6

Effect of trace additions of Sn on precipitation kinetics


and microstructural phases of Al–Cu–Mg alloys

Sanjib Banerjee1 · P. S. Robi2 · A. Srinivasan3 · Sanjib Gogoi1 ·


Sumit Bhowmick1

Received: 5 March 2022 / Accepted: 25 May 2022


© Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2022

Abstract
The precipitation and dissolution kinetics of cast and solutionized Al–6.2wt%Cu–
0.6wt%Mg alloys microalloyed with varying contents of Sn was investigated. Dif-
ferential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was performed from 50 to 550 °C at four
different heating rates. Exothermic peak within intermediate temperature range of
200–300 °C of DSC heating cycle represented the precipitation reaction. Endother-
mic drift at elevated temperatures corresponded to melting of alloy phases. Peak
temperatures increased with increase in heating rate, indicating precipitation reac-
tion to be kinetically controlled. The kinetic rate equation governing exothermic pre-
cipitation peaks was modelled using a new analytical technique. Activation energy
and kinetic parameters were determined for the alloys, and effect of Sn concentra-
tions was investigated. Functional forms of mole fraction transformed were opti-
mized. Predicted transformation rate calculated using the kinetic rate equation and
evaluated kinetic parameters, was successfully compared with experimental data
with fairly good accuracy. To identify possible precipitating crystalline phase(s),
X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis was performed on age-hardened alloys. DSC and
XRD results were further corelated with microstructural characterization of mor-
phology and composition of different phases, as studied by SEM and EDS analysis.
Microalloying with Sn up to 0.06 wt% was observed to kinetically favor the precipi-
tation reaction, as evident from increased growth in θ-crystal size, increased volume
fraction of microstructural θ-phase, decrease in peak temperature and lower values
of activation energy. Trace additions of Sn revealed considerable potential to control
precipitation kinetics, activation energy, precipitating phases, and respective micro-
structural evolution of the investigated Al–Cu–Mg alloy system.

Keywords Aluminum alloys · Microalloying · Age-hardening · Precipitation


kinetics · Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) · Microstructure

* Sanjib Banerjee
[email protected]
Extended author information available on the last page of the article

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