Towards the development of heat-treatable high-strength wrought Mg alloys
Received 26 November 2009; received in revised form 17 January 2010; accepted 21 January 2010. published online 25 January 2010.
The potential to develop high-strength low-cost wrought Mg alloys through precipitation hardening is discussed with specific references to our recent studies on microalloyed Mg–Zn and Mg–Sn based extruded alloys.