Aging treatment

Modifications to Precipitates. Silicon is sometimes added to Al—Cu—Mg alloys to help nucleate S precipitates without the need for cold work prior to the elevated temperature aging treatments. Additions of elements such as tin [7440-31-5] Sn, cadmium [7440-43-9] Cd, and indium [7440-74-6] In, to Al—Cu alloys serve a similar purpose for 9 precipitates. Copper is often added to Al—Mg—Si alloys in the range of about 0.25% to 1.0% Cu to modify the metastable precursor to Mg2Si. The copper additions provide a substantial strength increase. When the copper addition is high, the quaternary Al CuMg Si Q-phase must be considered and dissolved during solution heat treatment. 

An important item in this array of matenals is the class known as maraging steels. This group of high nickel martensitic steels contain so Htde carbon that they are often referred to as carbon-free iron—nickel martensites (54). Carbon-free iron—nickel martensite with certain alloying elements is relatively soft and ductile and becomes hard, strong, and tough when subjected to an aging treatment at around 480°C. 

By adjusting the content of cobalt, molybdenum, and titanium, the 18% nickel steel can attain yield strengths of 1380—2070 MPa (200,000—300,000 psi) after the aging treatment. Similarly, yield strengths of 12% nickel steel in the range of 1035—1380 MPa (150,000—200,000 psi) can be developed by adjusting its composition. 

Fig. 8.93 Observed and calculated values of the threshold net section stresses for stress corrosion cracking of a C-Mn steel after various prior deformations and ageing treatments...

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In the following example, the measured chemical quantities are fixed by four continuous factors age, treatment A, treatment B and analytical error. Treatment B has been applied to only one sample of the class. Age and treatment A produce variations in composition that cannot be interpreted as deviations from the model they are the inner factors. On the other hand, treatment B cannot be identified as an inner factor because of the lack of information, and its effects fall, with the analytical error, in the outer space. Besides, if the effects of treatment B are noticeably greater than those of the analytical error, the B-treated object can be identified as an outlier, as it really is. 

Assessing the effectiveness of a new drug candidate can be complex and often difficult. This is because some diseases or symptoms do not follow a predictable path. For example, acute conditions such as influenza or insomnia may resolve without intervention, while chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis or arthritis follow a varying course of progression. Depending on age, treatment, and other risk factors, heart attacks and strokes may produce variable mortality rates. Additional difficulty is introduced by subjective evaluation, which can be influenced by the expectations of patients and physicians. Some of these issues can be addressed in controlled clinical trials. 

Generally, vulcanised rubber is dimensionally very stable (unless it is strained), which probably explains the lack of standard test methods for this property. In this context, thermal expansion and swelling in liquids are properties considered in their own right and not normally thought of as being measures of dimensional stability. This is a different situation to that which exists with plastics where a number of dimensional stability tests are in existence. If a measure of dimensional change is required, the appropriate dimensions of a suitable sized test piece can be measured by any of the methods mentioned in this chapter before and after an ageing treatment. 

Here A. is the X-ray wavelength, 9 the diffraction angle, and k a constant usually equal to 1. As the crystallite size increases, the line breadth B decreases. Application of this technique allows the estimation of crystallite size. Figure 18 shows the crystallite size of cerium oxide growing from 50 A in its initial state to 400 A after thermal aging treatment. 

An aging treatment results in a partial coalescence of particles and a strengthening of the network occurs. At the neck joining the particles there is a negative radius of curvature. Thus, local solubility at the neck is less than near the particle surface. Therefore, transport and deposition of silica occur preferentially to the neck region and neck thickening results. This results in a strengthening of the particulate network, Fig.7.5 (Zarzycki etal, 1982). 

TPR is a routinaiy technique in the redox characterization of M/Ce02 and related catalysts. It has been very extensively used in comparative studies aimed at establishing the influence of variables like the chemical composition (281,341,343,344,350-353), or the high temperature ageing treatments (187,288,337,347,354), on the reducibility of ceria-based mixed oxides, both in the presence and in the absence of a supported noble metal. 

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