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Grain growth behavior of a nanostructured 5083 Al–Mg alloy

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A nanostructured 5083 Al–Mg alloy powder was subjected to various thermal heat treatments in an attempt to understand the fundamental mechanisms of recovery, recrystallization and grain growth as they apply to nanostructured materials. A low-temperature stress relaxation process associated with reordering of the grain boundaries was found to occur at 158 °C. A bimodal restructuring of the grains occurred at 307 °C for the unconstrained grains and 381 °C for the constrained grains. An approximate activation energy of 5.6 kJ/mol was found for the metastable nanostructured grains, while an approximate activation energy of 142 kJ/mol was found above the restructuring temperature.

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  1. University of California—Irvine, Chemical, Biochemical and Materials Science Department, 92697, Irvine, California, USA

    V. L. Tellkamp, D. Cheng & E. J. Lavernia

  2. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Code 683, 9500 MacArthur Boulevard, 20817-5700, West Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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Tellkamp, V.L., Dallek, S., Cheng, D. et al. Grain growth behavior of a nanostructured 5083 Al–Mg alloy. Journal of Materials Research 16, 938–944 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2001.0133

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