Effect of equal-channel angular pressing on room temperature superplasticity of quasi-single phase Zn-0.3Al alloy

Demirtas M., PÜRÇEK G., YANAR H., Zhang Z. J., Zhang Z. F.

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING, cilt.644, ss.17-24, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 644
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.07.041
  • Dergi Adı: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.17-24
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Room temperature superplasticity, Dilute Zn-Al alloys, Fine-grained microstructure, Severe plastic deformation, PERCENT-AL-ALLOY, MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION, MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES, GRAIN-REFINEMENT, SEISMIC DAMPER, DEFORMATION, PRINCIPLES, BEHAVIOR, CAPABILITY, MAGNESIUM
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Quasi-single phase (dilute) Zn-0.3Al alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformation via equal-channel angular extrusion/pressing (ECAE/P), and the effects of ECAP on its room temperature (RT) and high strain rate (HSR) superplasticity and deformation mechanism were investigated. Multi-pass ECAP may refine the coarse-grained microstructure into the fine grained (FG) one. The grain size of Zn-matrix phase decreased down to 2.0 mu m after ECAP. Many spherical Al-rich precipitates decomposed and homogeneously distributed inside the matrix phase. They are ultrafine grained (UFG) beta-particles with the grain sizes ranging from 50 nm to similar to 200 nm. This special microstructure having FG and UFG micro-constituents brought about an improvement in RI superplasticity even at HSRs. While multi-pass ECAP decreased flow stress of the alloy, its elongation to failure increased substantially depending on the initial strain rates. The maximum elongation was 1000% at a low strain rate of 10(-4) s(-1), and 350% elongation was achieved at a high strain rate of 10(-2) s(-1). Grain boundary sliding (GBS) was found to be the main deformation mechanism in region-II as the optimum superplastic region. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.