Developing Superplasticity in Metallic Alloys through the Application of Severe Plastic Deformation

2008 ◽  
Vol 604-605 ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto B. Figueiredo ◽  
Megumi Kawasaki ◽  
Terence G. Langdon
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Refinement ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Metallic Alloys ◽  
Superplastic Flow ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials

Processing through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) provides an opportunity for achieving very significant grain refinement in bulk metals. Since the occurrence of superplastic flow generally requires a grain size smaller than ~10 µm, it is reasonable to anticipate that materials processed by SPD will exhibit superplastic ductilities when pulled in tension at elevated temperatures. This paper summarizes the fundamental principles of SPD processing and describes recent results demonstrating the occurrence of exceptional superplastic flow in these ultrafine-grained materials.

The New SPD Processing Trends to Fabricate Bulk Nanostructured Materials

2006 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Valiev
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Refinement ◽  
Nanostructured Materials ◽  
Nanocrystalline Materials ◽  
Commercial Production ◽  
Materials Processing ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials ◽  
Bulk Nanocrystalline

During the last decade severe plastic deformation (SPD) has become a widely known method of materials processing used for fabrication of ultrafine-grained materials with attractive properties. Nowadays SPD processing is rapidly developing and is on the verge of a transition from lab-scale research to commercial production. This paper focuses on several new trends in the development of SPD techniques for effective grain refinement, including those for commercial alloys and presents new SPD processing routes to produce bulk nanocrystalline materials.

Prediction of the Stress-Strain Response of the Ultrafine-Grained Materials Using Multi-Scale Analysis

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Banu ◽  
Mitica Afteni ◽  
Alexandru Epureanu ◽  
Valentin Tabacaru
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Aluminum Alloy ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Deformation Processes ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials ◽  
Multi Scale Analysis

There are several severe plastic deformation processes that transform the material from microsized grains to the nanosized grains under large deformations. The grain size of a macrostructure is generally 300 μm. Following severe plastic deformation it can be reached a grain size of 200 nm and even less up to 50 nm. These structures are called ultrafine grained materials with nanostructured organization of the grains. There are severe plastic deformation processes like equal angular channel, high pressure torsion which lead to a 200 nm grain size, respectively 100 nm grain size. Basically, these processes have a common point namely to act on the original sized material so that an extreme deformation to be produced. The severe plastic deformation processes developed until now are empirically-based and the modeling of them requires more understanding of how the materials deform. The macrostructural material models do not fit the behavior of the nanostructured materials exhibiting simultaneously high strength and ductility. The existent material laws need developments which consider multi-scale analysis. In this context, the present paper presents a laboratory method to obtain ultrafine grains of an aluminum alloy (Al-Mg) that allows the microstructure observations and furthermore the identification of the stress–strain response under loadings. The work is divided into (i) processing of the ultrafine-grained aluminum alloy using a laboratory-scale process named in-plane controlled multidirectional shearing process, (ii) crystallographic analysis of the obtained material structure, (iii) tensile testing of the ultrafine-grained aluminum specimens for obtaining the true stress-strain behavior. Thus, the microscale phenomena are explained with respect to the external loads applied to the aluminum alloy. The proposed multi-scale analysis gives an accurate prediction of the mechanical behavior of the ultrafine-grained materials that can be further applied to finite element modeling of the microforming processes.

Some New Trends in SPD Processing for Fabrication of Bulk Nanostructured Materials

2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Valiev
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Refinement ◽  
Nanocrystalline Materials ◽  
Commercial Production ◽  
Materials Processing ◽  
Established Method ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials ◽  
Bulk Nanocrystalline

During the last decade severe plastic deformation (SPD) has become a well established method of materials processing used for fabrication of ultrafine-grained materials with attractive properties. Nowadays SPD processing is rapidly developing and is on the verge of a transition from lab-scale research to commercial production. This paper focuses on several new trends in the development of SPD techniques for effective grain refinement. The paper also presents new SPD processing routes to produce bulk nanocrystalline materials.

Evaluating the Flow Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 829 ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Megumi Kawasaki ◽  
Terence G. Langdon
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Strain Rates ◽  
Flow Properties ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Flow Mechanisms ◽  
Small Grains ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials

Processing through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) provides an opportunity for achieving significant grain refinement, typically to the submicrometer or even the nanometer level. If these small grains are reasonably stable at elevated temperatures, it is possible to achieve excellent superplastic capabilities at very rapid strain rates. Recent developments on the flow properties of ultrafine-grained materials are examined and it is shown that the flow mechanisms can be readily depicted using deformation mechanism maps. Examples of maps are presented for materials processed by SPD techniques.

Computation on continuous grain refinement in AA1050 aluminum during repetitive tube expansion and shrinking technique

2015 ◽  
Vol 232 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-318
Author(s):  
H Jafarzadeh ◽  
K Abrinia
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element Method ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Finite Element ◽  
Dislocation Density ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Refinement ◽  
Half Cycle ◽  
Tube Expansion ◽  
Element Method

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.

Investigations on Microstructure Evolution and Deformation Behavior of Aged and Ultrafine Grained Al-Zn-Mg Alloy Subjected to Severe Plastic Deformation

2010 ◽  
Vol 667-669 ◽  
pp. 253-258
Author(s):  
Wei Ping Hu ◽  
Si Yuan Zhang ◽  
Xiao Yu He ◽  
Zhen Yang Liu ◽  
Rolf Berghammer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Microstructure Evolution ◽  
Deformation Behavior ◽  
Deformation Mechanisms ◽  
Mg Alloy ◽  
Ultrafine Grained

An aged Al-5Zn-1.6Mg alloy with fine η' precipitates was grain refined to ~100 nm grain size by severe plastic deformation (SPD). Microstructure evolution during SPD and mechanical behaviour after SPD of the alloy were characterized by electron microscopy and tensile, compression as well as nanoindentation tests. The influence of η' precipitates on microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grained Al-Zn-Mg alloy is discussed with respect to their effect on dislocation configurations and deformation mechanisms during processing of the alloy.

The Processing of Ultrafine-Grained Materials Using High-Pressure Torsion

2007 ◽  
Vol 558-559 ◽  
pp. 1283-1294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Xu ◽  
Z. Horita ◽  
Terence G. Langdon
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
High Pressure Torsion ◽  
Metallic Materials ◽  
Grain Sizes ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ultrafine Grained Materials ◽  
Thin Disks

It is now well-established that processing through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) leads to a significant reduction in the grain size of a wide range of metallic materials. This paper examines the fabrication of ultrafine-grained materials using high-pressure torsion (HPT) where this process is attractive because it leads to exceptional grain refinement with grain sizes that often lie in the nanometer or submicrometer ranges. Two aspects of HPT are examined. First, processing by HPT is usually confined to samples in the form of very thin disks but recent experiments demonstrate the potential for extending HPT also to bulk samples. Second, since the strains imposed in HPT vary with the distance from the center of the disk, it is important to examine the development of inhomogeneities in disk samples processed by HPT.

THE PROPERTIES OF BULK ULTRAFINE-GRAINED METALS PROCESSED THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF SEVERE PLASTIC DEFORMATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 05 ◽  
pp. 299-306
Author(s):  
TERENCE G. LANGDON
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Severe Plastic Deformation ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
High Pressure Torsion ◽  
Superplastic Forming ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Angular Pressing ◽  
Ultrafine Grained ◽  
Processing Techniques

Processing through the application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) provides a very attractive tool for the production of bulk ultrafine-grained materials. These materials typically have grain sizes in the submicrometer or nanometer ranges and they exhibit high strength at ambient temperature and, if the ultrafine grains are reasonably stable at elevated temperatures, they have a potential for use in superplastic forming operations. Several procedures are now available for applying SPD to metal samples but the most promising are Equal-Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) and High-Pressure Torsion (HPT). This paper examines the basic principles of ECAP and HPT and describes some of the properties that may be achieved using these processing techniques.

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