Materials Science and Engineering

Effect of Sc addition on downstream processing of twin-roll cast Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Zr-based alloys

  • Rostislav KRáLíK ,
  • Barbora K?IVSKá ,
  • Lucia BAJTO?OVá ,
  • Mykhailo STOLBCHENKO ,
  • Mirko SCHAPER ,
  • Olexandr GRYDIN ,
  • Miroslav CIESLAR
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  • 1. Department of Physics of Materials, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 5, 12116, Prague, Czech Republic;
    2. Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Paderborn, Warburger Stra?e 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

Online published: 2025-11-04

Abstract

A processing scheme for preparing strips of Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Zr-based alloys microalloyed with Sc was proposed. This scheme includes a twin-roll casting of strips with a near-net-shaped 3 mm-thick gauge and a homogenization/solution treatment processing step. Two twin-roll cast Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Zr-based alloys were studied, one with an addition of 0.17 wt.% Sc, and the other without addition of Sc. Both alloys were annealed at 300 °C for 30 min, 450 °C for 30 min, and 530 °C for 30 min and quenched into room temperature water. The first two annealing steps provide a fine dispersion of Al3Zr/Al3(Sc,Zr) particles. The final annealing step serves as homogenization/solution treatment. A fine crystallization structure of the twin-roll cast materials enables the dissolution of primary particles containing the main alloying elements during a relatively short annealing time. Shorter soaking duration limits the depletion of surface layers from Li and significant coarsening of Al3Zr/Al3(Sc,Zr) dispersoids. The Sc-containing material has significantly finer grains already in the as-cast state. The Al3(Sc,Zr) dispersoids formed during the homogenization/solution treatment step prevent grain coarsening at high temperatures. Strengthening θ′(Al2Cu), T1(Al2CuLi), and rare S''''(Al2CuMg) phases are formed during subsequent artificial aging at 180 °C. The increase in yield strength was 200 MPa in the peak-aged conditions. This value is comparable to the ones reported in similar direct-chill cast materials, thus validating the proposed processing scheme.

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Rostislav KRáLíK , Barbora K?IVSKá , Lucia BAJTO?OVá , Mykhailo STOLBCHENKO , Mirko SCHAPER , Olexandr GRYDIN , Miroslav CIESLAR . Effect of Sc addition on downstream processing of twin-roll cast Al-Cu-Li-Mg-Zr-based alloys[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2024 , 34(6) : 1759 -1773 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(24)66505-2

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