Precipitation Hardening Process

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Precipitation hardening is a process that using very high temperature to strengthen an object such as , metal alloy and aluminium , precipitation hardening process also referred to age hardening . There are three main process that involve in Precipitation Hardening , the first process is Solution Treatment , second process is Quenching , and thirdly is Aging . On the other hand , Dispersion strengthening only have two process which is aluminium alloys made by powder metallurgy are used in the nuclear power field for sheathing fuel rods , and also used for heat exchanger tubing and high temperature turbine blades . It is presently receiving significant attention in the design of a variety of advanced power generation and aerospace devices , such as interactive components in magnetic confinement fusion reactor , rotating –source neutron targets , rocket nozzles , combustion chamber liners and combustor walls and leading edges . These applications require materials with a high thermal conductivity in combination with a high elevated temperature strength in oxygen or hydrogen .

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Precipitation hardening , or age hardening is one of the mostly used mechanism for strengthening of metal alloys . Creating precipitation hardened materials starts with heating the material to av very high temperature in order to dissolve the precipitation . It takes around 1 to 20 hour for the precipitate to dissolve completely . As I mention just now , there are three basic steps involve during precipitation hardening process . The first step of the process is solution treatment , this process is where the aluminium alloy are heated at a very high temperature and soaked until a homogeneous solid solution is produced . Secondly , Quenching is...

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...and between planes that are far apart . Planes with a high planer density fulfil this requirement . Therefore , the slip planes are typically close-packed planes or those as closely packed as possible . Dislocations do not move easily in material such as silicon , which have covalent bonds . Next , the strength and directionality of the bonds , the materials typically fail in a brittle manner before the force becomes high enough to cause appreciable slip . Dislocation also play a relatively minor role in the deformation in polymers primarily involves the stretching , rotation , and disentanglement of long chain molecules .
Material with ionic bonding , including many ceramics such as MgO , also are resistant to slip . Movement of a dislocation disrupts the change balance around the anions and cations , requiring that bonds between anions and cations be broken .

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