METASTABLE EXTENSION OF SOLID SOLUBILITY OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS IN Al

The splat folis of Al-RE(RE=Y,La,Ce,Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu,Gd,Tb,Dy,Er and Yb)binary alloys of 0.04—0.06 mm thickness were made by are-melting and hammer-anviltechnique,the.cooling rate is in 10~6 K/s order of magnitude.The metastable extendedsolid solubilities of these RE elements have been evaluated by measurements of the latticespacings of the rapidly solidified(RS)Al-RE alloys,they are 0.4,0.15,0.21,0.21,0.3,0.5,0.1,0.6,0.65,0.7,0.75,0.2 at.-% for above individual RE clements,respectively.Thesecondary phase in RS Al-RE alloys were identified to be Al_4RE for alloys containinglight RE and Eu elements and Al_3 RE for alloys containing heavy RE and Y elements.Some factors influencing the extension of solid solubility of Al-RE alloy were discussed.