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Das, Siddhartha 2011-05-07T14:00:15Z 2011-05-07T14:00:15Z 10000-01-01 1989 A study has been made of the development of microstructure, mechanical properties and oxidation behavior of Mg-Li-Si alloys. In the first instance, an attempt has been made to determine the phase equilibria that occur under near-equilibrium conditions for the case of Mg rich alloys. This has involved the application of optical metallography, x-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry. As a result, the ternary phase diagram for these Mg-rich alloys has been drawn semi-quantitatively. This diagram has been used together with optical and electron metallography to determine the effect of Li on the Mg-Si binary system, as well as understand the development of microstructure in rapidly solidified Mg-Li-Si alloys. Thus, Li is found to reduce the eutectic temperature and also cause the eutectic composition to occur at lower concentrations of Si. A coupled eutectic microstructure has been produced by rapid solidification processing for an hyper-eutectic composition given by Mg-xLi-3Si (where x = 5 to 12 wt.%), and the difference between the behavior of the binary Mg-Si and the ternary Mg-Li-Si alloys has been assessed. The mechanical properties of these alloys have been studied using various types of sample. Thus, rapidly solidified melt-spun ribbons containing coupled eutectic as well as cellular microstructures have been tested, and it has been found, contrary to expectation, that the dispersed phase Mg$\sb2$Si provides sites for crack initiation at the particle/matrix interfaces. In laser surface melted alloys, the effect of Li has been associated with a refinement of grain size. Decohesion along the particle (Mg$\sb2$Si)/matrix interfaces again limits the plastic properties of these alloys. The oxidation behavior of the as-cast Mg-Li and Mg-Li-Si alloys has also been studied. It appears that microstructure has a significant effect on the oxidation behavior of these alloys. It has been proposed that oxidation is taking place at the oxide-metal interface, requiring the diffusion of oxygen through the growing oxide layer. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:00:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 8924803.pdf: 5249204 bytes, checksum: ae946cc12d2095e28061c803c263d3ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:01:49Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:29:21-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI8924803 (UMI)AAI8924803 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23047 eng Copyright 1989 Das, Siddhartha Engineering, Metallurgy A study of alloys based on the magnesium-lithium system text Engineering, Metallurgy Engineering, Metallurgy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.