For this reason, precipitation hardening is often referred to as "aging."

Precipitation hardening of light alloys.

These compounds improve the grain refining, retardation of recrystallization, and precipitation hardening of the steel.

Precipitation hardening is one of the most commonly used techniques for the hardening of metal alloys.

"On the Precipitation Hardening Behaviour of Al-Mg-Si-Cu Alloy, AA6111", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, in print.

Precipitation hardening relies on changes in solid solubility with temperature to produce fine particles of an impurity phase, which impede the movement of dislocations, or defects in a crystal's lattice.

The primary species of precipitation strengthening are second phase particles.

V is used to provide precipitation strengthening.

Precipitation strengthening plays a minor role, too.

Common heat treatment processes include annealing, precipitation strengthening, quenching, and tempering.

The γ' phase size can be precisely controlled by careful precipitation strengthening heat treatments.

Diffusion's exponential dependence upon temperature makes precipitation strengthening, like all heat treatments, a fairly delicate process.

This mixture has a solid solubility which varies dramatically with temperature, allowing it to undergo precipitation strengthening.

Precipitation strengthening is possible if the line of solid solubility slopes strongly toward the center of a phase diagram.

Inconel's high temperature strength is developed by solid solution strengthening or precipitation strengthening, depending on the alloy.

An important strengthening mechanism is precipitation strengthening which forms secondary phase precipitates such as gamma prime and carbides.

These are useful in that they show general characteristics, although they are unable to incorporate all factors that influence strength in modern steels, for example precipitation strengthening.

In age hardening or precipitation strengthening varieties, alloying additions of aluminum and titanium combine with nickel to form the intermetallic compound Ni3(Ti,Al) or gamma prime (γ').

While binary alloys are more easily understood as an academic exercise, commercial alloys often use three components for precipitation strengthening, in compositions such as Al(Mg, Cu) and Ti(Al, V).

Scandium is also a potent grain refiner in cast aluminium alloys, and atom for atom, the most potent strengthener in aluminium, both as a result of grain refinement and precipitation strengthening.