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Chinese Journal of Materials Research  2022, Vol. 36 Issue (1): 13-20    DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2021.249
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Extruded Mg-Alloy Mg-Al-Ca-Mn-Zn
LIU Yang1,2, KANG Rui3, FENG Xiaohui1, LUO Tianjiao1, LI Yingju1, FENG Jianguang1,2, CAO Tianhui1, HUANG Qiuyan1(), YANG Yuansheng1
1.Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
2.School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
3.Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
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LIU Yang, KANG Rui, FENG Xiaohui, LUO Tianjiao, LI Yingju, FENG Jianguang, CAO Tianhui, HUANG Qiuyan, YANG Yuansheng. Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Extruded Mg-Alloy Mg-Al-Ca-Mn-Zn. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2022, 36(1): 13-20.

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Abstract  

The microstructure and mechanical properties of extruded Mg-alloy of Mg-1Al-0.4Ca-0.5Mn-0.2Zn (mass fraction, %) were systematically investigated. As indicated by the results, the incomplete dynamic recrystallization occurred for the alloys extruded at 260℃ (denoted as AXMZ1000-260) and 290°C (AXMZ1000-290) with recrystallized grain sizes of 0.75 μm and 1.2 μm, respectively. The two alloys have high-density G.P. regions and spherical nano-phases, which can effectively inhibit the dislocation motion and provide abundant nucleation sites for dynamic recrystallization. Moreover, the nano-phases precipitated along grain boundaries can restrain the migration of grain boundary and restrict the growth of DRXed grains, which results in the ultrafine grains with a size of 0.75 μm in AXMZ1000-260 alloy. The strength of the alloy decreases with the increase of extrusion temperature, and the change of elongation is not obvious. The yield strength and elongation of alloys extruded at 260℃ and 290℃ are approximately 322 MPa and 343 MPa, as well as 13.4% and 13%, respectively. The dynamic precipitation and recovery process are promoted by the increasing extrusion temperature, and a high-density G.P. zones and spherical nano-phases are accumulated in the alloy. At the same time, many dislocations are transformed into LAGBs by dynamic recovery, and the unDRXed areas are subdivided into dense lamellar subgrains. The nano-phases and LAGBs can effectively hinder the newly generated dislocation motion, which is the major reason that the alloy extruded at 290℃ still have a high yield strength and the change of ductility is not obvious. Furthermore, TEM observations show that the pinning effect of G.P. zones can impede the dynamic recovery to certain extent, resulting in a high number of residual dislocations in the alloy, which is conducive to the improvement of the yield strength.

Key words:  metallic materials      Mg alloy      grain refinement      nano-phase      dynamic recrystallization     
Received:  16 April 2021     
ZTFLH:  TG146.22  
Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51701211);the Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province(2019JZZY020329)
About author:  HUANG Qiuyan, Tel: 18512416690, E-mail: qyhuang16b@imr.ac.cn

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Fig.1  Engineering stress-strain tensile curves of extruded AXMZ1000 alloys
Alloyσs / MPaσb / MPaδ / %
AXMZ1000-260343 ± 1349 ± 413.4 ± 2.2
AXMZ1000-290322 ± 3328 ± 313.0 ± 3.0
Table 1  Mechanical properties of AXMZ1000 alloys
Fig.2  Optical micrographs of extruded AXMZ1000 alloys (a, b) AXMZ1000-260; (c, d) AXMZ1000-290
Fig.3  BF-TEM images of extruded AXMZ1000-260 alloy (The red asterisks in the figure show the low-angular grain boundaries. The blue arrows show the G.P. zones, the red arrows show the dislocations, and the pink arrows show the nano-phases)
Fig.4  BF-TEM images of extruded AXMZ1000-290 alloy (The red asterisks in the figure show the low-angular grain boundaries. The blue arrows show the G.P. zones, the red arrows show the dislocations, and the pink arrows show the nano-phases)
Fig.5  BF-STEM images of extruded AXMZ1000-260 alloy
Fig.6  BF-STEM image and EDS mapping analysis results of extruded AXMZ1000-260 alloy (a) BT-STEM image, and (b~f) EDS mapping analysis results
Fig.7  BF-STEM images and EDS mapping analysis results of extruded AXMZ1000-260 alloy (a, b) BT-STEM images, and (c~g) EDS mapping analysis results
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