Discontinuous Precipitation and Dissolution in Cu-4, 6 at% In Alloy under the Effect of Plastic Deformation and the Temperature

Said Bensaada, Hamoudi Mazouz, Mohamed Tewfik Bouziane

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DOI: 10.4236/msa.2011.210198                

Abstract

The study of the discontinuous precipitation reaction and the lamellar precipitate dissolution in the alloy Cu-In system provoked a considerable benefit and has been the subject of many theoretical and experimental investigations. The aim of this work is to make the evidence on the one hand the effect of the plastic deformation on the mechanism of the discontinuous precipitation reaction such as nucleation, growth and lamellar coarsening and in other hand the effect of temperature on the characteristics and front behavior movement of the opposite reaction (discontinuous dissolution). Different techniques of analysis have been used in this respect such as the optical microscopy, the differential thermal analysis and the microhardness Vickers. The obtained results confirm various works achieved in this field.

Keywords

Cu-in Alloy, Discontinuous Precipitation, Dissolution, Plastic Deformation, Temperature

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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