Nanotomographic evaluation of precipitate structure evolution in a Mg-Zn-Zr alloy during plastic deformation.

ABSTRACT: Magnesium and its alloys attract increasingly wide attention in various fields, ranging from transport to medical solutions, due to their outstanding structural and degradation properties. These properties can be tailored through alloying and thermo-mechanical processing, which is often complex and multi-step, thus requiring in-depth analysis. In this work, we demonstrate the capability of synchrotron-based nanotomographic X-ray imaging methods, namely holotomography and transmission X-ray microscopy, for the quantitative 3D analysis of the evolution of intermetallic precipitate (particle) morphology and distribution in magnesium alloy Mg-5.78Zn-0.44Zr subjected to a complex multi-step processing. A rich history of variation of the intermetallic particle structure in the processed alloy pr

SUBMITTER: Zeller-Plumhoff B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7527343 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature