High temperature tensile ductilities and deformation mechanisms of an extruded and rolled AZ31 Mg alloy were investigated.Elongation-to-failure tests were conducted under constant T-head velocity and constant temperatures ranging from 300℃ to 450℃.Strain-rate-change tests were conducted under varying strain rate from 5×10-5s-1to 2×10-2s-1and constant temperature from 300℃ to 450℃.Experimental results show that the maximum elongation of the AZ31 alloy with an average grain size of about 19μm is 117%at strain rate of 10- 3s-1 and temperature of 450℃.Stress exponent and activation energy were characterized to clarify the deformation mechanisms.The enhanced ductility is dominated by solute drag dislocation creep,and the major failure mechanism is cavity growth and interlinkage.
Aging behaviors of extruded and rolled AZ80 and AZ31 Mg alloys were investigated under conditions similar to the paint-bake cycle currently used in automotive industry.Artificial aging at 170℃ from 0.5 to 12 h was conducted on solution-treated specimens to study the effects of aging on mechanical properties.SEM observations and EDS data show thatβ-phase of Al12Mg17 precipitates continuously or discontinuously fromα-Mg matrix and distributes along grain boundaries of the AZ80 alloy during artificial aging.Data of tensile tests and Vickers hardness tests show that an optimum mechanical property is achieved after baking at 170℃ for 6-8 h when Vickers hardness,tensile strength,and elongation are increased by 6.35%,15.30%,and 7.88%,respectively, while the AZ31 alloy does not exhibit significant hardening behavior over the aging period.
Enhanced tensile ductilities in coarse grained Al-Mg-Zn and Al-Mg-Fe materials were studied.The materials were Al-2Mg-5Zn,Al-3Mg-5Zn,Al-4Mg-5Zn,Al-3Mg-0.11Fe,Al-3Mg-0.27Fe,and Al-3Mg-0.40Fe.Tensile elongation-to-failure tests were conducted at constant cross-head speed and constant temperatures from 300 to 450℃.Strain rate change tests were conducted at a constant temperature from 300 to 450℃and in strain-rate range from 4.31×10-5to 1.97×10-2s-1.Experimental results show that over 100%ductilities are consistently achieved in these materials.This superplasticity-like behavior is rate-controlled by solute-drag creep.Although ternary Zn and Fe additions do not have an adverse effect on solute-drag creep and ductility,they increase stress exponent and its sensitivity to Mg content during solute-drag creep.
Tensile behaviors of an AZS0 alloy were investigated by elongation-to-failure tensile tests at 300, 350, 400 and 450 ℃, and strain rates of 10-2 and 10-3 s 1. Strain-rate-change tests from 5×10-5 s-1 to 2x10-2 s-1 were applied to study deformation mechanisms. The experimental data show that the material exhibits enhanced tensile ductilities of over 100% at 400 and 450 ℃ with stress exponent of 4.29 and activation energy of 149.60 kJ/mol, and initial fine grains preserve in evenly deformed gauge based on microstructure studies. The enhanced tensile ductilities are rate controlled by a competitive mechanism of grain boundary sliding and dislocation climb creep, based on which a model can successfully simulate the deformation behavior.
