My activities in January:

I wrote the article entitled: "Age hardening of Mg-3Zn-xCa (x = 0, 0.5, 1.0 ) wt.% alloys” which was sent to Materials Science Forum.The article was prepared fot the 6th International Light Metal Technology Conference organised by Specialist Research Institute of Brunel University.

Here you can read abstract:

"Alloys of nominal composition Mg-3Zn-xCa (x = 0, 0.5, 1.0) wt.% were prepared by resistance melting and casting under the protective argon atmosphere. All specimens were examined by hardness test during ageing at 175 °C. It was shown that calcium addition causes the increase in hardness. A detailed characteristic of microstructure of metastable phases has been carried out using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Calcium addition resulted in much refined and more homogeneous distribution of the precipitates when compared with the binary Mg-3%Zn alloy. The age-hardening of ternary alloy is attributed to the fine disc-shape plates lying on the basal plane of the matrix."