scholarly journals Natural Advantages of Preparation of Composites from Minerals: Effect of Bauxite Addition on the Microstructures and Properties of Fe-Al2O3 Based Composites

Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Chen ◽  
Baowei Li ◽  
Yu Shi ◽  
Shunli Ouyang

Fe-Al2O3 composites were prepared by pressureless sintering, using Bayan Obo iron concentrate and bauxite as the main raw materials, activated carbon was added as the reducing agent. The effects of different bauxite additions on the phase composition, microstructures, mechanical properties, and the corrosion-resistance were investigated. The results show that the average grain size of alumina decreased as the bauxite content increased. In addition, bauxite contains TiO2, CaO, and MgO, that can form a liquid phase at high temperature, causing the heat capacity of the micro-zone around the metal phase to be different, which leads to a change of undercooling and further affects the dislocation density of the metal phase. The plastic deformation ability of the metal phase can be improved with the low dislocation density. Fracture mechanism analysis indicated that the metal phase absorbed energy through plastic deformation. The optimum performance of the sample was as follows: the flexural strength was 310 MPa, the hardness 12.14 GPa, the alkali resistance 98.32%, and the acid resistance 95.44%.

2013 ◽  
Vol 745-746 ◽  
pp. 315-320
Author(s):  
Wen Bin Li ◽  
Fu Ping Yuan ◽  
Xiao Lei Wu

Using molecular dynamics simulations, the influence of transverse tensile stresses on the plastic deformation behaviour of nanocrystalline (NC) Ni under tension has been investigated. The sample with an average grain size of 20 nm was created using a Voronoi construction, and two different tensile tests of the sample were performed at a constant strain rate. The simulation results revealed that more partials were emitted from the grain boundaries and propagate into the grain interiors after adding the transverse tensile stress, enhancing the dislocation density in the grain interiors. This increased dislocation density can cause additional strain hardening observed in the stress strain curve. Meanwhile, it was observed from microstructures that nanovoids are easier to form and coalesce into cracks under the biaxial stress state, causing strain softening. The two competing effects of the transverse tensile stress on the plastic deformation behaviour of NC Ni resulted in the flow stresses from 4% to 10% strain in the biaxial stress state slightly larger than those in the uniaxial stress state.


Author(s):  
M.A. Mogilevsky ◽  
L.S. Bushnev

Single crystals of Al were loaded by 15 to 40 GPa shock waves at 77 K with a pulse duration of 1.0 to 0.5 μs and a residual deformation of ∼1%. The analysis of deformation structure peculiarities allows the deformation history to be re-established.After a 20 to 40 GPa loading the dislocation density in the recovered samples was about 1010 cm-2. By measuring the thickness of the 40 GPa shock front in Al, a plastic deformation velocity of 1.07 x 108 s-1 is obtained, from where the moving dislocation density at the front is 7 x 1010 cm-2. A very small part of dislocations moves during the whole time of compression, i.e. a total dislocation density at the front must be in excess of this value by one or two orders. Consequently, due to extremely high stresses, at the front there exists a very unstable structure which is rearranged later with a noticeable decrease in dislocation density.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 645
Author(s):  
Igor Litovchenko ◽  
Sergey Akkuzin ◽  
Nadezhda Polekhina ◽  
Kseniya Almaeva ◽  
Evgeny Moskvichev

The effect of high-temperature thermomechanical treatment on the structural transformations and mechanical properties of metastable austenitic steel of the AISI 321 type is investigated. The features of the grain and defect microstructure of steel were studied by scanning electron microscopy with electron back-scatter diffraction (SEM EBSD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It is shown that in the initial state after solution treatment the average grain size is 18 μm. A high (≈50%) fraction of twin boundaries (annealing twins) was found. In the course of hot (with heating up to 1100 °C) plastic deformation by rolling to moderate strain (e = 1.6, where e is true strain) the grain structure undergoes fragmentation, which gives rise to grain refining (the average grain size is 8 μm). Partial recovery and recrystallization also occur. The fraction of low-angle misorientation boundaries increases up to ≈46%, and that of twin boundaries decreases to ≈25%, compared to the initial state. The yield strength after this treatment reaches up to 477 MPa with elongation-to-failure of 26%. The combination of plastic deformation with heating up to 1100 °C (e = 0.8) and subsequent deformation with heating up to 600 °C (e = 0.7) reduces the average grain size to 1.4 μm and forms submicrocrystalline fragments. The fraction of low-angle misorientation boundaries is ≈60%, and that of twin boundaries is ≈3%. The structural states formed after this treatment provide an increase in the strength properties of steel (yield strength reaches up to 677 MPa) with ductility values of 12%. The mechanisms of plastic deformation and strengthening of metastable austenitic steel under the above high-temperature thermomechanical treatments are discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (6-9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Fadhlina Mohamed ◽  
Seungwon Lee ◽  
Kaveh Edalati ◽  
Zenji Horita ◽  
Shahrum Abdullah ◽  
...  

This work presents a study related to the grain refinement of an aluminum A2618 alloy achieved by High-Pressure Torsion (HPT) known as a process of Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD). The HPT is conducted on disks of the alloy under an applied pressure of 6 GPa for 1 and 5 turns with a rotation speed of 1 rpm at room temperature. The HPT processing leads to microstructural refinement with an average grain size of ~250 nm at a saturation level after 5 turns. Gradual increases in hardness are observed from the beginning of straining up to a saturation level. This study thus suggests that hardening due to grain refinement is attained by the HPT processing of the A2618 alloy at room temperature.


Author(s):  
H Jafarzadeh ◽  
K Abrinia

The microstructure evolution during recently developed severe plastic deformation method named repetitive tube expansion and shrinking of commercially pure AA1050 aluminum tubes has been studied in this paper. The behavior of the material under repetitive tube expansion and shrinking including grain size and dislocation density was simulated using the finite element method. The continuous dynamic recrystallization of AA1050 during severe plastic deformation was considered as the main grain refinement mechanism in micromechanical constitutive model. Also, the flow stress of material in macroscopic scale is related to microstructure quantities. This is in contrast to the previous approaches in finite element method simulations of severe plastic deformation methods where the microstructure parameters such as grain size were not considered at all. The grain size and dislocation density data were obtained during the simulation of the first and second half-cycles of repetitive tube expansion and shrinking, and good agreement with experimental data was observed. The finite element method simulated grain refinement behavior is consistent with the experimentally obtained results, where the rapid decrease of the grain size occurred during the first half-cycle and slowed down from the second half-cycle onwards. Calculations indicated a uniform distribution of grain size and dislocation density along the tube length but a non-uniform distribution along the tube thickness. The distribution characteristics of grain size, dislocation density, hardness, and effective plastic strain were consistent with each other.


2011 ◽  
Vol 409 ◽  
pp. 597-602
Author(s):  
Yuichi Mizuno ◽  
Kenji Okushiro ◽  
Yoshiyuki Saito

Grain boundary migration in materials under severe plastic deformation was simulated by the phase field methods. The interface energy and dislocation density on growth kinetics were simulated on systems of 2-dimensional lattice. .In inhomogeneous systems grain size distributions in simulated grain structures were binodal distributions. The classification of the solution of differential equations based on the mean-field Hillert model describing temporal evolution of the scaled grain size distribution function was in good agreement with those given by the Computer simulations. Effect of dislocation on thermodynamic stability was taken into consideration. Dislocation density distribution was calculated by a equation based on the diffusion-reaction equation.. Scaled grain size distribution was known to be affected by the dislocation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 838-839 ◽  
pp. 404-409
Author(s):  
Roman Mishnev ◽  
Iaroslava Shakhova ◽  
Andrey Belyakov ◽  
Rustam Kaibyshev

A Cu-0.87%Cr-0.06%Zr alloy was subjected to equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) at a temperature of 400 °C up to a total strain of ~ 12. This processing produced ultra-fine grained (UFG) structure with an average grain size of 0.6 μm and an average dislocation density of ~4×1014 m-2. Tensile tests were carried out in the temperature interval 450 – 650 °C at strain rates ranging from 2.8´10-4 to 0.55 s-1. The alloy exhibits superplastic behavior in the temperature interval 550 – 600 °C at strain rate over 5.5´10-3 s-1. The highest elongation-to-failure of ~300% was obtained at a temperature of 575 °C and a strain rate of 2.8´10-3 s-1 with the corresponding strain rate sensitivity of 0.32. It was shown the superplastic flow at the optimum conditions leads to limited grain growth in the gauge section. The grain size increases from 0.6 μm to 0.87 μm after testing, while dislocation density decreases insignificantly to ~1014 m-2.


2010 ◽  
Vol 113-116 ◽  
pp. 1770-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Hua Zhao ◽  
Min Xu

Cu(OH)2 precursor was synthesized by direct precipitation method and CuSO4 and NaOH were used as raw materials. Then, Cu(OH)2 precursor was calcined in muffle furnace at 400°C for 2h in order that CuO particle was obtained. Through the analysis of the factors affecting the CuO, the paper determined the optimum conditions for the synthesis of nano-CuO with the direct-precipitation method. Then the paper analyzed phase composition and crystal structure of samples using XRD and calculated the average grain size of samples by Scherrer formula, and observed and analyzed by TEM to characterize the morphology and particle size of samples. The optimum precipitation conditions are as follows: when the precipitation agent is 3.2:1, reaction time 40min and precipitant concentration 0.6mol.L-1. The average size of CuO particle prepared under the conditions is 18nm and the yield is 96%.


2011 ◽  
Vol 399-401 ◽  
pp. 855-859
Author(s):  
Ting Ting Wu ◽  
Bo Lin Wu

In order to improve the acid resistance and reduce the apparent density of fracturing proppants, TiO2 powder added in the system of BaO-MgO-Al2O3 fracturing proppants were prepared by the technique of pressureless sintering. The properties of the samples were investigated by the measurements of acid solubility, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The results show that the acid solubility of alumina matrix fracturing proppants contenting TiO2 of the 4wt% and BaO/MgO with the ratio of 3:7 is 0.15%. It is an important development in acid resistance performance of fracturing proppants research on laboratory. TiO2 is added to the raw materials and then calcine them to ceramics, which can reduces the sintering temperature, promote the densification and improve acid-resistant property of fracturing proppants.


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