Precipitation Hardening

Content:-
 ---Introduction
---Brief Historical Background
---Age Hardening - Metallurgical Background
---Precipitation from supersaturated solid solution
---Precipitation of solute clusters - Guinier-Preston zones
---Coherency of GP zones
---Homogeneous nucleation
---Homogeneous nucleation of solute clusters
---Stability of solute clusters
---Coarsening of solute clusters (Ostwald ripening)
---Slip and hardening
---Age hardening curves and the ageing sequence
---Precipitate-free zones at grain boundaries
---Vacancy depletion
---Asymmetrical precipitate-free zones
---Age Hardening - details on Al-Mg-Si
---Natural ageing
---Two step ageing
---Age Hardening - summary of other important
engineering alloys
---Introduction to analytical electron microscopy

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