Abstract
The Zn-Al alloys containing different amounts of Al (4,8,12,22 and 27 wt. %) are very often found in certain applications.
Microstructure changes and phase transformation of these alloys have been systematically characterized. The present
paper is focused on the establishing activation energies for eutectoid transformations in the binary Zn (4,8,12,22) wt. % - Al
systems, using the temperature values of correspondent peaks from experimental derivative dilatation curves. The
increasing of aluminium contents determines a decreasing of activation energy value either for heating or cooling. The
activation energy variation depends on aluminium content or eutectoid ratio in the alloy structure.
Keywords
Zn-Al alloy, Thermal analysis, Dilatometric analysis.
Citation
B. VARGA, D. MUNTEANU, Dilatometric and thermal analysis of hipoeutectoid Zn-Al alloys, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 12, December 2009, pp.1343-1347 (2009).
Submitted at: Nov. 16, 2009
Accepted at: Nov. 23, 2009