Abstract: In this paper,the activation energy for precipi- tate dissolution in binary AI-Li alloy has been in- vestigated by considering precipitate dissolution in Al-Li alloy,continuously heated as a thermally ac- tivated process.The proposed calculation was car- ried out by changing the scanning rate in DSC measurement.The results show that the formation of GP zone is easy because the activation energy for its dissolution is smaller than that for Li atom diffu- sion in the matrix.The δ′dissolution consists of two steps:the first step needs larger thermal activation to break down the superlattice structure,and the second is much easier like GP zone dissolution.The phase is the most stable,which needs much larger thermal activation to disappear.

Key words: Al-Li alloy, dissolution process, apparent activation energy, differential scanning calorimetry