Abstract
Abstract Samples of dilute Al–Mg and Al–Zn alloys, containing a minor Sc addition, were processed by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) to achieve grain refinement and different distributions of the grain boundary misorientations. Diffusion experiments were conducted on fine-grained alloys with either low or high fractions of grain boundaries having high-angle misorientations and on unpressed coarse-grained samples. The diffusion couples were annealed at temperatures from 493 to 848 K and the interdiffusion coefficients were determined from the concentration profiles using the Boltzmann–Matano technique. The results show the interdiffusion coefficients tend to be higher in fine-grained alloys having high fractions of high-angle boundaries than in fine-grained alloys having high fractions of low-angle boundaries. The experimental data are used to estimate values for the grain boundary diffusion coefficients.
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