TY - JOUR A1 - Häusler, Ines A1 - Darvishi Kamachali, Reza A1 - Hetaba, W. A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit T1 - Thickening of T-1 Precipitates during Aging of a High Purity Al–4Cu–1Li–0.25Mn Alloy JF - Materials N2 - The age hardening response of a high-purity Al–4Cu–1Li–0.25Mn alloy (wt. %) during isothermal aging without and with an applied external load was investigated. Plate shaped nanometer size T1 (Al2CuLi) and θ′ (Al2Cu) hardening phases were formed. The precipitates were analyzed with respect to the development of their structure, size, number density, volume fraction and associated transformation strains by conducting transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) studies in combination with geometrical Phase analysis (GPA). Special attention was paid to the thickening of T1 phase. Two elementary types of single-layer T1 precipitate, one with a Li-rich (Type 1) and another with an Al-rich (Defect Type 1) central layer, were identified. The results show that the Defect Type 1 structure can act as a precursor for the Type 1 structure. The thickening of T1 precipitates occurs by alternative stacking of These two elementary structures. The thickening mechanism was analyzed based on the magnitude of strain associated with the precipitation transformation normal to its habit plane. Long-term aging and aging under load resulted in thicker and structurally defected T1 precipitates. Several types of defected precipitates were characterized and discussed. For θ′ precipitates, a ledge mechanism of thickening was observed. Compared to the normal aging, an external load applied to the peak aged state leads to small variations in the average sizes and volume fractions of the precipitates. KW - Al-Cu-Li-alloy KW - Precipitation KW - T1 precipitate KW - Microstructure evolution KW - Thickening KW - Creep KW - Volume fraction KW - Number density KW - Strain difference PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-471207 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12010030 SN - 1996-1944 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 30, 1 EP - 23 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-47120 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ta, N. A1 - Bilal, M. U. A1 - Häusler, I. A1 - Saxena, A. A1 - Lin, Y.-Y. A1 - Schleifer, F. A1 - Fleck, M. A1 - Glatzel, U. A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Darvishi Kamachali, Reza T1 - Simulation of the θ′ Precipitation Process with Interfacial Anisotropy Effects in Al-Cu Alloys JF - Materials N2 - The effects of anisotropic interfacial properties and heterogeneous elasticity on the growth and ripening of plate-like θ′-phase (Al2Cu) in Al-1.69 at.% Cu alloy are studied. Multi-phase-field simulations are conducted and discussed in comparison with aging experiments. The precipitate/matrix interface is considered to be anisotropic in terms of its energy and mobility. We find that the additional incorporation of an anisotropic interfacial mobility in conjunction with the elastic anisotropy result in substantially larger aspect ratios of the precipitates closer to the experimental observations. The anisotropy of the interfacial energy shows comparably small effect on the precipitate’s aspect ratio but changes the interface’s shape at the rim. The effect of the chemo-mechanical coupling, i.e., the composition dependence of the elastic constants, is studied as well. We show that the inverse ripening phenomenon, recently evidenced for δ’ precipitates in Al-Li alloys (Park et al. Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 3981), does not establish for the θ′ precipitates. This is because of the anisotropic stress fields built around the θ′ precipitates, stemming from the precipitate’s shape and the interaction among different variants of the θ′ precipitate, that disturb the chemo-mechanical effects. These results show that the chemo-mechanical effects on the precipitation ripening strongly depend on the degree of sphericity and elastic isotropy of the precipitate and matrix phases. KW - Aging KW - Phase-field simulation KW - Interfacial anisotropy KW - Chemo-mechanical coupling KW - Precipitation KW - Elasticity KW - θ′-(Al2Cu) precipitate phase PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-522672 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14051280 VL - 14 IS - 5 SP - 1280 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-52267 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -