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We study the isothermal δ′ (Al3Li) precipitation kinetics in an Al–2.3 wt% Li–0.1 wt% Zr alloy by means of the measurement of the thermoelectric power (TEP) in the temperature range between 120 and 180 °C. We obtain that the nucleation-and-growth stage of δ′ precipitation reaction can be well described by the Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov (JMAK) relation. This result suggests that the JMAK relation provides a good description of the impingement effect of growing δ′ precipitates where interactions mainly occur on neighbouring precipitates. The activation energy associated to the nucleation-and-growth stage calculated from the JMAK fit is 52 ± 1 kJ/mol. The small activation energy obtained is ascribed to the presence of a large amount of excess vacancies quenched-in from the ageing temperature, inherent to the experimental conditions of the measurement of the TEP, reducing the activation energy to a value close to the vacancy migration energy in aluminium (45–65 kJ/mol). The Avrami exponent of this stage ranges between 1.5 and 1.65. These kinetic parameters indicate that δ′ particles grow via a three-dimensional vacancy migration-controlled mechanism.
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Gutiérrez-Urrutia, I. Study of isothermal δ′ (Al3Li) precipitation in an Al–Li alloy by thermoelectric power. J Mater Sci 46, 3144–3150 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-010-5195-8
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