A Cu-Cr alloy with nano and microscale Cr particles produced in a water-cooled copper mold

作     者：Seyyed Mohammd Hossein Hejazi Fatemeh Majidi Gholam Hossein Akbari 

作者机构：Mining Industries Research Center Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Department of Material Science and Engineering Faculty of Engineering Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Minerals,Metallurgy and Materials》 (矿物冶金与材料学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第17卷第5期

页      面：629-634页

核心收录：

学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 0709[理学-地质学] 0819[工学-矿业工程] 0806[工学-冶金工程] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

主　　题：copper alloys chromium molding precipitation hardening nanoparticles 

摘      要：Microstructures have profound effects on the hardness and strength of Cu-Cr alloys. The microstructures of a Cu-Cr alloy cast in a water-cooled copper mold were studied in the present work. The scanning electron microscopy （SEM） results show that there are the copper matrix saturated with chromium, spherical precipitates of chromium separated from liquid phase during cooling before the initiation of so- lidification, and a eutectic phase in grain boundary areas. To investigate the effect of age-hardening treatment on the microstructures and properties of the material, some samples were subsequently age-hardened in a salt bath and investigated by transmission electron microscopy （TEM）. The results show that coherent precipitates with the diameter of 11 nm are detectable in the samples before and after the age-hardening stage. Of course, the volume fraction of coherent precipitates is higher after the aging process.