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Muon Spin Relaxation Study of Solute–Vacancy Interactions During Natural Aging of Al-Mg-Si-Cu Alloys

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Muon spin relaxation has the unique ability to detect very low concentrations of vacancies and vacancy–solute complexes in solids. In this work, we investigate quaternary Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloys and show that after quenching to room temperature from 848 K (575 °C), vacancies gradually become incorporated into clusters in the Al matrix. The total amount of vacancies in the material increases as small vacancy-rich clusters are formed, which is the opposite of the behavior in Cu-free Al-Mg-Si alloys.

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This study has been supported by JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number JP18H01747), The Norwegian–Japanese Aluminum alloy Research and Education Collaboration (INTPART), Project Number 249698, and The Japan Institute of Light Metals.

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  1. Materials and Nanotechnology, SINTEF Industry, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Sigurd Wenner & Calin D. Marioara

  2. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan

    Katsuhiko Nishimura, Kenji Matsuda, Seungwon Lee & Takahiro Namiki

  3. RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Based Science, Wako, 351-0198, Japan

    Isao Watanabe & Teiichiro Matsuzaki

  4. Department of Physics, NTNU, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Randi Holmestad

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Wenner, S., Marioara, C.D., Nishimura, K. et al. Muon Spin Relaxation Study of Solute–Vacancy Interactions During Natural Aging of Al-Mg-Si-Cu Alloys. Metall Mater Trans A 50, 3446–3451 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05285-y

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