Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Mg-Li-Zn Alloys as Processed by ECAE

2007 ◽  
Vol 546-549 ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jye Lee ◽  
Jian Yih Wang ◽  
Chin Shuang Lee ◽  
Shyong Lee

Magnesium alloys and very light metals that can be used for structural application. A variety of Mg-Li-Zn alloys including Mg-11%Li-1%Zn, Mg-9%Li-1%Zn, Mg-9%Li-1%Zn-0.2%Mn, Mg-9%Li-1%Zn-1%Al-0.2%Mn and Mg-9%Li-3%Al-1%Zn-0.2%Mn were processed by equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) to see how effective is this process in refining the grain structure. After 4 passes of the ECAE process, TEM studied the microstructural diversifications, especially showing the existence of compounds, MgLiZn, MgZn2 and ZnO. The room temperature and high temperature mechanical properties were also investigated. After the ECAE process, the room temperature strength was found enhanced at a modest cost of reduction in elongation.

2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 2949-2952
Author(s):  
Jian Qing Qian ◽  
Ji Ping Chen ◽  
Bao Qiao Wu ◽  
Jie Ca Wu

The fire-resistant hot-rolled H-beam steel is the newly developed structure material. The development situation of the fire-resistant H-beam steel is briefly introduced. The chemical composition, microstructure, room temperature and high temperature mechanical properties and weldability of several batches of the developed domestic fire-resistant hot-rolled H-beam steels are comprehensively analyzed. The results show that the newly developed hot-rolled fire-resistant H-beam steel has very high room temperature strength, certain high temperature strength, good welding performance, but the toughness needs to be further improved. The performance of web and flange of H-beam steel has large gap.


2012 ◽  
Vol 602-604 ◽  
pp. 627-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu Sik Kim ◽  
Kee Ahn Lee ◽  
Jong Ha Kim ◽  
Si Woo Park ◽  
Kyu Sang Cho

Inconel 713C alloy was tried to manufacture by using MIM(Metal Injection Molding) process. The high-temperature mechanical properties of MIMed Inconel 713C were also investigated. Processing defects such as pores and binders could be observed near the surface. Tensile tests were conducted from room temperature to 900°C. The result of tensile tests showed that this alloy had similar or somewhat higher strengths (YS: 734 MPa, UTS: 968 MPa, elongation: 7.16 % at room temperature) from RT to 700°C than those of conventional Inconel 713C alloys. Above 800°C, however, ultimate tensile strength decreased rapidly with increasing temperature (lower than casted Inconel 713C). Based on the observation of fractography, initial crack was found to have started near the surface defects and propagated rapidly. The superior mechanical properties of MIMed Inconel 713C could be obtained by optimizing the MIM process parameters.


2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 1709-1713
Author(s):  
Lan Yan ◽  
Y.M. Xing ◽  
Ji Jun Li

This paper investigated the high temperature mechanical properties of the hybrid fiber reinforced high performance concrete (HFHPC) and normal concrete (NC) .After being subjected to different elevated heating temperatures, two kinds of concretes have been tested for the compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and flexural strength of test specimen at room temperature and 200 °C,400 °C,600 °C,800 °C.Microstructure changes of concrete were also observed by using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) after high temperature. The results show that the hybrid fiber can significantly increase mechanical properties of the concrete at room temperature and high temperature. SEM and XRD analysis shows that there is a permeable diffusion layer in the steel fiber surface because of solid state reaction in the Interfacial Transition Zone of steel fiber and concrete. This permeable diffusion layer is white, bright, serrated and mainly consist of FeSi2 and the complex hydrated calcium silicate. The compounds of this layer change the Interfacial Transition Zone structure, enhance bonding capacity of the steel fiber and matrix, and increase the high temperature mechanical properties of concrete.


2007 ◽  
Vol 280-283 ◽  
pp. 1877-1880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Feng Zan ◽  
Chang An Wang ◽  
Li Min Dong ◽  
Yong Huang

The high-temperature mechanical properties were very important to structural materials, especially structural ceramics. Hence, the strength, elastic modulus, stress relaxation and creep behavior of the multilayer materials at elevated temperature were studied in this paper. According to the curves of mechanical properties varieties with temperature risen from room-temperature to 1300°C, the multilayer materials could remain relatively high mechanical properties until 1150°C. Otherwise, the creep function of the multilayer composites was also determined, in which the stress exponent was 1.4 and activation energy was 204kJ/mol. By contrasting to the monolithic ceramics of Al2O3 and Ti3SiC2, the main creep mechanisms include: interface diffusion creep (in Al2O3 layers), dislocation movement creep, grain delamination and sliding (in Ti3SiC2 layers).


2014 ◽  
Vol 783-786 ◽  
pp. 580-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugesan Jayaprakash ◽  
De Hai Ping ◽  
Y. Yamabe-Mitarai

Titanium (Ti) alloys are widely used in aerospace industries successfully up to 600°C. Increasing the operating temperature and performance of these alloys would be very useful for fuel economy. Numerous numbers of research works has been focused on the improvement of the high temperature performances of Ti alloys. It has been well known that Zirconium (Zr) is one of the important solid-solution strengthener in Ti-alloys. In the present study, the effect of Zr addition on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the near–α Ti-Al-Zr-Sn based alloys has been investigated.The compression test results showed that Zr addition significantly improves both room temperature and high temperature strength. The results obtained were explained based on the microstructural observation, room temperature and high temperature compressive tests.


Author(s):  
Wen Zheng ◽  
Jia-Min Wu ◽  
Shuang Chen ◽  
Chang-Shun Wang ◽  
Chun-Lei Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractSilica ceramic cores have played an important part in the manufacture of hollow blades due to their excellent chemical stability and moderate high-temperature mechanical properties. In this study, silica-based ceramics were prepared with Al2O3 addition by stereolithography, and the influence of Al2O3 content on mechanical properties of the silica-based ceramics was investigated. The Al2O3 in silica-based ceramics can improve the mechanical properties by playing a role as a seed for the crystallization of fused silica into cristobalite. As a result, with the increase of Al2O3 content, the linear shrinkage of the silica-based ceramics first decreased and then increased, while the room-temperature flexural strength and the high-temperature flexural strength first increased and then decreased. As the Al2O3 content increased to 1.0 vol%, the linear shrinkage was reduced to 1.64% because of the blocked viscous flow caused by Al2O3. Meanwhile, the room-temperature flexural strength and the high-temperature flexural strength were improved to 20.38 and 21.43 MPa with 1.0 vol% Al2O3, respectively, due to the increased α-cristobalite and β-cristobalite content. Therefore, using the optimal content of Al2O3 in silica-based ceramics can provide excellent mechanical properties, which are suitable for the application of ceramic cores in the manufacturing of hollow blades.


2004 ◽  
Vol 449-452 ◽  
pp. 689-692
Author(s):  
E.H. Kim ◽  
Hi Won Jeong ◽  
Seung Eon Kim ◽  
Yong Taek Hyun ◽  
Yont Tai Lee ◽  
...  

A new high strength titanium alloy system with low cost alloying elements, such as Al, Fe, has been recently developed. In present study the expensive V was replaced with Fe, and Si was added from 0 to 7.5wt.%. The effect of Fe and Si on the microstructure and tensile properties of Ti-6Al-4Fe-xSi (x=0, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75wt.%) alloys was investigated. The room and high temperature mechanical properties of Ti-6Al-4Fe alloys were better than those of the Ti-6Al-4V. It was mainly due to the phase boundary strengthening at ambient and high temperature. The strength and elongation of the developed alloys depended upon the Si contents. The Si elements made the grain boundary and colony size fine, and increased the strength of the developed alloys by solid solution and precipitation hardening. The tensile strength variation with the Si contents at room temperature and 400°C, and at 450°C and 500°C showed a similar behavior, respectively.


2013 ◽  
Vol 747-748 ◽  
pp. 470-477
Author(s):  
Rui Dong Liu ◽  
Xu Guang Dong ◽  
Fu Jun Wei ◽  
Yuan Sheng Yang

The effects of minor Al and Ce on the microstructures, room-temperature and high-temperature mechanical properties of as-cast Mg-6Zn magnesium alloys were investigated. With the Al addition into Mg-6Zn alloy, the coarse eutectic Mg51Zn20phases were refined and distributed discontinuously. After adding 0.5wt.% Ce into Mg-6Zn-1Al alloy, a new needle-like Al2CeZn2phase was observed. Meanwhile, the volume fraction of Mg51Zn20phase decreased and the semi-continuous Mg51Zn20phase became discontinuous globular morphology. It has been observed that the addition of Ce element coarsens the grains, and 1wt.% Al addition enhanced the yield strength and ultimate strength from 86.35MPa, 229MPa to 90.7MPa, 238MPa, respectively. Moreover, the Ce addition can significantly increase the high-temperature mechanical properties of cast Mg-6Zn-1Al alloy.


2010 ◽  
Vol 105-106 ◽  
pp. 218-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Liu ◽  
Qiang Xu ◽  
Shi Zhen Zhu

ZrB2-SiC-B4C is sintered at 1700°C by spark plasma sintering process. The effect of B4C content on the mechanical properties and microstructure of ZrB2-SiC based ceramics is studied. The results show that, with the content of B4C increases, the relative density and room-temperature strength decrease in the ZrB2-SiC-B4C composite. The fracture toughness rises at first and then falls down. The high temperature strength increases.


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