My activities in February:

During this month I performed extensive literature overview on hardening behaviour of Mg-Zn-Ca alloys.

A bit of history:

The first systematic attempt to characterize hardening behaviour in Mg-Ca-Zn alloys was performed by Nie and Muddle[1997]. The researchers investigated the binary Mg-1 wt% Ca alloy and ternary Mg-1Ca-1Zn wt% alloy. The age hardening response of the binary alloy is not very significant. However, by adding zinc the aging response is significantly enhanced and the time to the peak hardness is shortened. The beneficial effect of zinc in enhancement of the aging response of the binary Mg-Ca alloy was also confirmed by Gao et al. [2005].