Metal treatment – Compositions – Heat treating
Patent
1977-04-25
1978-05-30
Stallard, W.
Metal treatment
Compositions
Heat treating
C22F 104
Patent
active
040921816
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for imparting a fine grain structure to aluminum alloys which have precipitating constituents. The alloy is first heated to a solid solution temperature to dissolve the precipitating constituents in the alloy. The alloy is then cooled, preferably by water quenching, to below the solution temperature and then overaged to form precipitates by heating it above the precipitation hardening temperature for the alloy but below its solution treating temperature. Strain energy is introduced into the alloy by plastically deforming it at or below the overaging temperature used. The alloy is then subsequently held at a recrystallization temperature so that the new grains are nucleated by the overaged precipitates and the development of these grains results in a fine grain structure.
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Hamilton C. Howard
Paton Neil E.
Humphries L. Lee
Malin Craig O.
Rockwell International Corporation
Stallard W.
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