Abstract
The composition dependence of the yield stress, σ , of single crystals of α-phase copper-aluminium alloys has been measured at 293 and 4.2 K under precisely defined experimental conditions to determine whether the Friedel relation with σ ∝ c 1/2 or the Mott-Labusch relation with σ ∝ c 2/3 applies. The best statistical fit gives a dependence of σ on c 1/2 for values of c between 0 and 0.15. A curve with σ ∝ c 2/3 can be fitted to the results for 0.003 ≤ c ≤ 0.15 with a small increase in the standard deviation, but a segment with σ ∝ c 1/2 must be introduced for 0 ≤ c ≤ 0.003. On the basis of these measurements it is not possible to decide between the validity of Friedel and of Mott-Labusch statistics for the concentrated alloys.
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