QUENCHING AND ANNEALING OF ZONE REFINED ALUMINUM,

Abstract

During the last several years an appreciable amount of information concerning point defects has been obtained both from equilibrium and nonequilibrium measurements. When metals are quenched from a high temperature to a low temperature most of the imperfections present in thermal equilibrium at the high temperature can be frozen in. In close-packed metals the dominant imperfections are vacancies, vacancy clusters, and dislocations arising from collapsed vacancy clusters. This research is aimed at determining the activation energy for motion of a divacancy and the binding energy of a divacancy as well as investigating the binding energy of larger clusters in aluminum. The activation energy for motion of a divacancy in aluminum was interpreted to be 0.50 = 0.04 eV. The binding energy of a divacancy in aluminum was interpreted to be 0.17 = 0.05 eV. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0437658

Entities

People

  • J. S. Koehler
  • M. Doyama

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aluminum
  • Annealing
  • Dislocations
  • Energy
  • Heat Of Activation
  • High Temperature
  • Low Temperature
  • Measurement
  • Metals
  • Point Defects
  • Quenching

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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