Published March 25, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Vacuum degassing behavior of rapidly solidified Al-Mn-Zr alloy powders

  • 1. Department of Materials Science, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555 (Japan)

Description

Gas desorption behavior and surface change characteristics of Al-Mn-Zr, Al-Mn, and Al-Zr alloy powders with heating in vacuo have been investigated by temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements. TPD measurements on powders exposed to humid air, dry air, and high purity argon gas were performed to determine the gas species evolved during degassing of Al alloy powders. The alloy composition and P/M processing atmosphere had a strong influence on degassing behavior. The surface oxides of Al alloy powders containing Mn and/or Zr were prone to hydration. Thus, the formation of fresh Al2O3 on the Al alloy powders occurred at low temperature during vacuum degassing by the reaction, Al + 3H2O = Al2O3 + 3H2. High-temperature XPS showed that decomposition of the hydroxide into oxide on the Al-Mn-Zr alloys occurred at 623 K

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.msea.2006.02.252;
PII
S0921-5093(06)01336-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Materials Science and Engineering. A, Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing
Journal Volume
449-451
Journal Page Range
p. 1013-1017
ISSN
0921-5093
CODEN
MSAPE3

Conference

Title
12. international conference on rapidly quenched and metastable materials
Acronym
RQ12
Dates
21-26 Aug 2005
Place
Jeju (Korea, Republic of)

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