Abstract: The room temperature equilibrium phase diagram of Al-Zn-Mg alloy was obtained by thermodynamic calculation. The calculated results showed that MgZn2, Al2Mg3Zn3 and Mg32(Al,Zn)49 are the main second phases in Al-xZn-yMg (x=5.0%—6.5%;y=1.5%—3.0%) alloys. The first-principles pseudopotential plane wave method based on density functional theory (DFT) was used to calculate the formation enthalpy and cohesive energy of the three phases. The calculation results show that MgZn2 has weak alloying ability and phase structure stability. According to the content of the second phase in the alloys, the three alloy compositions with the highest content of each second phase were selected as Al-6.0Zn-2.9Mg, Al-6.5Zn-1.7Mg and Al-6.5Zn-2.5Mg. Consequently, 3 solid solution supercells models of Al37Zn1Mg2, Al49-Zn2Mg1 and Al34Zn1Mg1 were constructed and investigated. The intrinsic properties, elastic constant, band structure and electronic density of state were calculated. The calculated results showed that Al49Zn2Mg1 had the best strength and plasticity; Al37Zn1Mg2 had the best shear resis-tance and stiffness; Al49Zn2Mg1 was tough, while Al34Zn1Mg1 and Al37Zn1Mg2 were brittle. The results of band structure and density of states indicated that all of them had metal bonds and metal conductivity. The covalent bond of Al37Zn1Mg2 was stronger than that of Al49Zn2Mg1 and Al34-Zn1Mg1, and the structure of Al37Zn1Mg2 was the most stable.
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