Synthesis and thermal stability of nanocrystalline Mg-6Al-1Zn-1Si alloy prepared via mechanical alloying

Subject Areas : Materials synthesis and charachterization

Roholamin Sedighi ¹ , Mohammad Rajabi ² , Seyed Mahmood Rabiee ³

1 - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran
2 - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
3 - Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

Received: 2014-11-06 Accepted : 2014-12-19 Published : 2015-03-01

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