Noncombustible Magnesium Alloy Processed by Rotary-Die Equal Channel Angular Pressing Method

2007 ◽  
Vol 544-545 ◽  
pp. 419-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Watazu ◽  
Ichinori Shigematsu ◽  
Xin Sheng Huang ◽  
Kazutaka Suzuki ◽  
Naobumi Saito

Noncombustible Mg-8Al-2Ca rods were processed by RD-ECAP. The magnesium alloy rod had Mg matrix and Al2Ca second phase. Grains with about 20 μm in diameter were observed in the matrix of the raw materials. The grains in matrix had no anisotropy. On the other hand, positions of second phase particles had anisotropy and the second phase particles formed lines. The samples processed by RD-ECAP had no crack and the samples had 20mm diameter. Grains in matrix of the 4 pass RD-ECAP sample had no anisotropy and the grains had under about 5 μm in diameter. The second phase particles had round shapes and were uniformly distributed as compared with the raw material rod. Therefore, the RD-ECAP is useful for forming noncombustible Mg-8Al-2Ca alloy with fine-grains.

2012 ◽  
Vol 715-716 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
H. Paul ◽  
T. Baudin ◽  
K. Kudłacz ◽  
A. Morawiec

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of deformation mode on recrystallization behavior of severely deformed material. Commercial purity AA3104 aluminum alloy was deformed via high pressure torsion and equal channel angular pressing to different strains and then annealed to obtain the state of partial recrystallization. The microstructure and the crystallographic texture were analysed using scanning and transmission electron microscopes equipped with orientation measurement facilities. The nucleation of new grains was observed in bulk recrystallized samples and during in-situ recrystallization in the transmission microscope. Irrespective of the applied deformation mode, a large non-deformable second phase particles strongly influenced strengthening of the matrix through deformation zones around them. It is known that relatively high stored energy stimulates the nucleation of new grains during the recrystalization. In most of the observed cases, the growth of recrystallized grains occurred by the coalescence of neighboring subcells. This process usually led to nearly homogeneous equiaxed grains of similar size. The diameter of grains in the vicinity of large second phase particles was only occasionally significantly larger than the average grain size. Large grains were most often observed in places far from the particles. TEM orientation mapping from highly deformed zones around particles showed that orientations of new grains were not random and only strictly defined groups of orientations were observed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. A. Faizov ◽  
R. R. Mulyukov ◽  
D. A. Aksenov ◽  
S. N. Faizova ◽  
N. V. Zemlyakova ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankur Kumar ◽  
F. Khan MD ◽  
Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi ◽  
Gajanan P. Chaudhari

Abstract Effect of microstructural changes after friction stir processing (FSP) on the corrosion behaviour of rare earth containing QE22 magnesium alloy is studied. FSP produced ultrafine-grained α-Mg matrix and refined the Mg12Nd precipitates whereas Mg12Nd2Ag precipitates got dissolved in the matrix. Although its hardness increased from 76 to 90 VHN, the FSPed alloy displayed inferior corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. This is attributed mainly to the iron contamination from FSP and presence of refined second phase particles which work as active cathodic sites. The role of distributed Mg12Nd precipitates before and after FSP is analysed from micro galvanic corrosion point of view.


2005 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 261-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Jiang ◽  
Guang Jie Huang ◽  
Stéphane Godet ◽  
John J. Jonas ◽  
Alan A. Luo

Particle-stimulated nucleation (PSN) was investigated in magnesium alloy AZ31 to study the effect of the evolution of second-phases during extrusion and other metal forming processes. Compression tests were carried out on samples taken from coarse-grained as-cast magnesium alloy billets containing a lamellar Mg17All2 eutectic phase and (Al, Mn) particles. These revealed that particle-stimulated DRX nucleation (PSN) was taking place during hot deformation and that this is facilitated by the fragmentation of the Mg17All2. When Mg17All2 dissolves into the matrix at about 350°C, the (Al, Mn) particles remain effective in producing PSN at temperatures up to at least 400°C. This suggests that alloy design leading to a suitable distribution of second-phase particles can improve the properties and formability of wrought magnesium alloys.


2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 527-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Yi Zheng ◽  
Shi Wei Xu ◽  
Xiao Guang Qiao ◽  
Wei Min Gan ◽  
Kun Wu ◽  
...  

ZWK510 (Mg-5.0wt%Zn-0.9wt%Y-0.2wt%Zr) magnesium alloy containing Mg3YZn6 quasicrystal phase was prepared by conventional permanent mold casting. Part of the cast ingot was subjected to equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) directly; another part of the cast ingot was extruded initially, then ECAP was applied to the extruded alloy. After 4-pass ECAP, the fraction of coarse grains of the as-cast alloy was decreased to about 30%, and the grain size of fine grain was decreased to about 2 μm. Both strength and ductility of the as-cast ZWK510 alloy were significantly improved with increasing ECAP passes, which was resulted from broken and dispersed I-phase, and fine grains formed due to recrystallization. The as-extruded ZWK510 had an initial grain size of about 2 μm and bands of quasicrystal phase parallel to the extrusion direction. After the extruded alloy was subjected to ECAP, the grain size of the extruded alloy was further refined, the grain size was refined to below 0.5 um after 8-pass ECAP; and the quasicrystal phase was further broken and dispersed in the matrix. After ECAP, the elongation to failure of the extruded alloy was improved. However, both yield strength and ultimate tensile strength were decreased, which is considered to be resulted from the texture modification during ECAP.


Author(s):  
C.T. Hu ◽  
C.W. Allen

One important problem in determination of precipitate particle size is the effect of preferential thinning during TEM specimen preparation. Figure 1a schematically represents the original polydispersed Ni3Al precipitates in the Ni rich matrix. The three possible type surface profiles of TEM specimens, which result after electrolytic thinning process are illustrated in Figure 1b. c. & d. These various surface profiles could be produced by using different polishing electrolytes and conditions (i.e. temperature and electric current). The matrix-preferential-etching process causes the matrix material to be attacked much more rapidly than the second phase particles. Figure 1b indicated the result. The nonpreferential and precipitate-preferential-etching results are shown in Figures 1c and 1d respectively.


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