Abstract
A heat-treatment procedure providing for enhanced stress-corrosion cracking resistance without any sacrifice of yield strength in 7075 aluminium alloy is investigated using transmission electron microscopy. It is suggested that the heat treatment (known as retrogression and re-ageing) provides for large grain-boundary precipitates and coherent matrix precipitates. The latter provides for the high strength levels while the grainboundary precipitates provide for enhanced stress-corrosion cracking resistance. A hydrogen embrittlement mechanism of stress-corrosion cracking is assigned to this alloy system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2817-2824 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Science |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1982 |
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