Author:
Chang Cynthia Sin Ting,De Geuser Frédéric,Banhart John
Abstract
A single crystal of an Al–Mg–Si alloy (Mg: 0.43 wt%, Si: 0.47 wt%) was aged at 453 K while small-angle neutron scattering experiments were carried outin situ. The scattering data recorded on a two-dimensional detector show the symmetry typical for needle-shaped β′′ precipitates oriented in the three [100] directions of the aluminium lattice and allow the calculation of the length, diameter and number density of the precipitates assuming cylindrical scattering objects of equal size and composition. The repetition time of the experiments was ∼12 min. The values obtained for the three quantities agree well with values measured by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on a similar alloy. The impact of one week of natural ageing before artificial ageing on the evolution of the size and number density of precipitates is found to be pronounced, as expected from published TEM data.
Publisher
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Cited by
12 articles.
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