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The effect of alloying elements on the plastic properties of aluminum alloys

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The amount of solid solution hardening in aluminum alloys was found to be dictated by two factors: the lattice strain, and the change in the mean number of free electrons per atom of the solid solution. To obtain this correlation it was necessary to assume that aluminum contributes two electrons per atom to the metallic bond.

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA

    J. E. Dorn (Member AIME, Professor of Metallurgy, Research Engineer), P. Pietrokowsky (Junior Member, Research Engineer) & T. E. Tietz (Student Associate, Research Engineer)

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AIME Chicago Meeting, Oct. 1950.

TP 2888 E. Discussion (2 copies) may be sent to Transactions AIME before Dec. 1, 1950.

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Dorn, J.E., Pietrokowsky, P. & Tietz, T.E. The effect of alloying elements on the plastic properties of aluminum alloys. JOM 2, 933–943 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399086

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