Microstructural study of Zn-Al alloy

Abstract

It is well known that zinc-aluminium alloys posses very good mechanical properties. This is the reason why the investigation of their ageing characteristics is very important for the practice. Several solid state reactions between alpha, beta, epsilon and T phases have been established for such materials alloyed with copper, but there has been no detailed on the formation, development and transformation of metastable phases into stable ones. This is exactly the aim of our investigation