Corrosion Behaviour of Zinc-Aluminium Alloys

Fatigue Behaviour in Fine Grained Aluminium Alloys

The effects of alloy production method on microstructure and hence fatigue crack growth rate and fracture mechanism have been examined for a variety of fine-grained/high dispersoid Al-Li-Mg-Zr and Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr alloys. Microstructures have been assessed by scanning and transmission electron microcopy, together with electron back scattered diffraction pattern assessment. In these fine-grained/h...

Factors Influencing the Environmental Behaviour of Aluminium-lithium Alloys

This paper d i s c u s s e s t he m i c r o s t r u c t u r a l f e a t u r e s of aluminium-lithium a l l o y s t h a t i n f luence t h e i r co r ros ion and s t r e s s co r ros ion behaviour. Emphasis has been given t o t h e e f f e c t of mic ros t ruc tu re on s t r e s s co r ros ion c rack i n i t i a t i o n and propagat ion i n Al-Li-Cu-Mg-Zr a l l o y s (e.g. 8090 and 8091). I n p ...

Mechanical Behaviour of Commercial Aluminium Wrought Alloys at Low Temperatures

In vitro corrosion behaviour of titanium alloys without vanadium

The corrosion behaviour of three new non-toxic titanium alloys for use as biomaterials has been investigated. The corrosion current densities of these Ti alloys have low values, indicating a passive state that is stable with time. These values were calculated by using both direct and alternate current methods. The comparison with Ti–6Al–4V, widely used as biomaterial, shows slightly lower corro...

Creep of Aluminium and Aluminium Alloys

This chapter constitutes an introduction to creep and to the creep response of Aluminium and its alloys. Its major goals are: to provide basic information on creep and its mechanisms to give a description of the more extensively used mathematical relations among creep variables (time, stress and temperature) to illustrate the creep response of pure Aluminium and of Al-Mg alloys to provide a syn...