Pressure, as well as temperature and component, is one of important factors which determine the existing states in materials. In particular, the properties of materials are changed the extreme states of high-pressures and high temperatures, and the substances and structures, which are not capable of obtaining under ordinary pressure, appear under the high-pressure. In the case of manufacturing new materials, diffusion phenomena of constituting atoms are utilized under high pressure as well as the ordinary pressure, but it is thought that the diffusion under high-pressure occurs under considerably different situations comparing with the atmospheric pressure. Diffusion is a basic and important factor for understanding and discussing the phenomena such as the recrystallization, homogenization, aging, precipitation, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to obtain the information for diffusion in Al-base ternary alloys under high-pressures. In the present work, the interdiffusion coefficients in the $B&A(J-fcc phase of the Al-Cu-Zn, Al-Cu-Mg and Al-Zn-Mg alloys have been determined under pressures from 0.101 to 3000 MPa in the temperature ranges from 793 to 868 K. The direct interdiffusion coefficients Dii(i=Cu, Zn, Mg) are positive, and the indirect interdiffusion coefficients Dij(i$B!b(Jj) are negative in the Al-Cu-Zn and Al-Zn-Mg systems. The interdiffusion coefficients decrease with increasing pressure. The activation energies for the interdiffusion and impurity diffusion increase with pressure. The ratios of the activation volume to the molar volume of each aluminum alloy ,$B-y(JV/V0, are 0.96-1.05 (Al-Cu-Zn system), 1.01-1.08 (Al-Cu-Mg system) and 0.99-1.10 (Al-Zn-Mg system). Their values for the ternary aluminum alloys are slightly larger than those of the binary Al-Cu, Al-Zn and Al-Mg alloys.
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