In this work, nanostructured Mg-Al-Nd alloys were successfully fabricated using mechanical alloying method. Phase structures of the milled powders and the extruded rods were examined using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the microstructures were observed using a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The element distributions were also examined by an energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) system. Th...

Zirconium (Zr) is an important alloying element to Mg-Zn-based alloy system. In this paper, we report the formation of the β-type precipitates on the nanoscale Zr-rich particles in a Mg-6Zn-0.5Cu-0.6Zr alloy during ageing at 180°C. Scanning transmission electron microscopy examinations revealed that the nanoscale Zr-rich [0001]α rods/laths are dominant in the Zr-rich core regions of the as-quen...

The formation of nanosized alloys between a pair of elements, which are largely immiscible in bulk, is examined in the archetypical case of Pt and Au. Element specific resonant high-energy X-ray diffraction experiments coupled to atomic pair distribution functions analysis and computer simulations prove the formation of Pt-Au alloys in particles less than 10 nm in size. In the alloys, Au-Au and...

The grain boundary oxidation mechanism in hot rolled steel samples during cooling from 500 °C – 800 °C down to room temperature was mathematically modeled. Given a fixed temperature ramp, the migration of the atomic species (iron, oxygen and the alloying elements) has been calculated with the parabolic rate equation for diffusion. After each small time step, the data was transferred into the da...

Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Al–Sc with Rare-Earth Element or Al2O3 Additions Richard Albert Karnesky, Jr. Aluminum alloys strengthened with coherent (L12), nanosize Al3Sc precipitates are structural materials that have outstanding strength at ambient and elevated temperatures. They are creep resistant at 300 ◦C and exhibit a threshold stress, below which creep is not measurable....

Despite great technological interest in nanostructured zinc oxide (ZnO) for a large variety of applications, such as lightemitting diodes, gas sensors, or dye-sensitized solar cells, their investigation as lithium-ion anode materials has been reported rather scarcely to date. In fact, although a theoretical specific capacity of about 988 mAhg@1 (if the reaction ZnO+ 3Li+3e$LiZn+Li2O is consider...

In this research, the effect of two process control agent: methanol (liquid state) and stearicacid (solid state) on mechanical alloying process of Ti and Al with equal at%(Ti50Al50) wereinvestigated. Phase transformation at presence of two PCA was: at first, powder mixture wastransformed to a metastable solid solution of Al in Ti lattice (disordered hcp) and then transformed toamorphous phase w...

In this work, mechanical alloying was employed to produce Ti-50Al and Ti-45Al-5Cr (at%) alloys. Alloying was performed in a planetary mill and the alloying time varying from 5 to 70h. Characterization of the powder mixture was performed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), SEM analyses and DTA test, during mechanical alloying and after annealing at 1100°c in vacuum oven. The results showed, after 50h of...

The dezincification of brasses has been the subject of substantial conjecture and investigation over the past century and the technical press is littered with papers on the problem. Very broadly the technical literature can be subdivided into five main groups as follows: (a) Observations of dezincification phenomena including mechanically induced dezincification and in-service experience in var...

This paper proposes method for solving steel alloying problem using evolution algorithms SOMA and differential evolution. Both algorithms belong to the family of the evolution algorithms but the main ideas of these algorithms are different. In differential evolution new offspring is created during the evolution, the individuals are crossed and mutated, while in SOMA the individuals move in the ...