Improved mechanical properties and strengthening mechanism with the altered precipitate orientation in magnesium alloys

Aging prior to twinning deformation was proposed to alter the precipitate orientation of the plate-shapedβ-MgAlfrom(0002)basal planes(named basal plates)to■prismatic planes(named prismatic plates)in AZ31 Mg alloy.The experimental results showed that the compressive yield strength(CYS)of the sample containing prismatic plates increased 40 MPa and the compression ratio raised by 22%compared to that containing basal plates.The underlying strengthening mechanism was analyzed via a yield strengthen(YS)model with a function of grain size,precipitate characters(size,oritention,fraction)and Schmid factor(SF).It revealed that the improvement of CYS was mainly attributed to the altered precipitate orientation and refined grain size produced by twinning deformation.Particularly,the prismatic plates always have a stronger hardening effect on basal slip than basal plates under the same varites of precipitate diameter and SF.Besides,the decreased CRSS ratio of prismatic slip to basal slip revealed that the activity of non-basal slip in Mg alloy might be enhanced.More activated slip systems provided more mobile dislocations,contributing to the large compression ratio of the Mg rolled sheet with prismatic plates.

The effect of intragranular microstress in A1203-SiC nanocomposites

A theoretical model is established to investigate the intragranular particle residual stress in A1203-SiC nanocom-posites. Using this model, we calculate the average compressive stress on the A1203 grain boundary （GB） and the average tensile stress within A1203 grains caused by SiC nanoparticles. The normal compressive stress strengthens the GB, and the average tensile stress weakens the grains. The model gives a reasonable interpretation of the strength changes of A1203-SiC nanocomposites with the number of SiC particles.

Strengthening in Al-,Mo-or Ti-doped CoCrFeNi high entropy alloys:A parallel comparison

In the current work,a parallel comparison of the influence of Al,Mo and Ti,on the microstructure and strengthening of the CoCrFeNi alloy was conducted.To achieve this,inconsistencies on variables including the extent of alloying,thermomechanical processing and property-evaluation method were avoided.Microstructurally,following cold-rolling,annealing of the 4 at.%Al-doped alloys at 800-1000℃ did not result in phase separation;nevertheless,that of the 4 at.%Mo-and Ti-doped alloys led to the respective formation ofσandηphase and,consequently,caused extra strengthening through the Orowan dislocation bypassing mechanism.Our systematic qualitative analysis and DFT calculations showed that Al and Ti are more effective than Mo in reducing the stacking fault energy(SFE)of the CoCrFeNi alloy,because they can induce more considerable deformation of electronic density,making the gliding of atomic layers easier.Following identical thermomechnical processing,Al-,Mo-,and Ti-doping causes different extent of solid solution strengthening and grain boundary strengthening.Mo causes the most pronounced solid solution strengthening but does not benefit the grain boundary strengthening;in contrast,the effectiveness of grain boundary strengthening is boosted by the doping Al and Ti.Current analyses support that Labusch instead of Fleischer mechanism is applicable to explain the differences in solid solution strengthening,and the observed differences in grain boundary strengthening arise from the different tendency of Al,Mo and Ti to reduce the SFE of CoCrFeNi.In addition,we determined the value of the dimensionless parameter f in the Labusch model for CoCrFeNi-based alloys and observed a close relation between Hall-Petch slope and SFE.Although more in-depth studies are needed to provide full and mechanistic understandings,both these findings in fact presents significant values toward designing novel singlephase high-strength CoCrFeNi-based alloys through manipulating the solid solution and grain boundary strengthening by compositional tuning.

CMAGAN:classifier-aided minority augmentation generative adversarial networks for industrial imbalanced data and its application to fault prediction

Class imbalance is a common characteristic of industrial data that adversely affects industrial data mining because it leads to the biased training of machine learning models.To address this issue,the augmentation of samples in minority classes based on generative adversarial networks(GANs)has been demonstrated as an effective approach.This study proposes a novel GAN-based minority class augmentation approach named classifier-aided minority augmentation generative adversarial network(CMAGAN).In the CMAGAN framework,an outlier elimination strategy is first applied to each class to minimize the negative impacts of outliers.Subsequently,a newly designed boundary-strengthening learning GAN(BSLGAN)is employed to generate additional samples for minority classes.By incorporating a supplementary classifier and innovative training mechanisms,the BSLGAN focuses on learning the distribution of samples near classification boundaries.Consequently,it can fully capture the characteristics of the target class and generate highly realistic samples with clear boundaries.Finally,the new samples are filtered based on the Mahalanobis distance to ensure that they are within the desired distribution.To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach,CMAGAN was used to solve the class imbalance problem in eight real-world fault-prediction applications.The performance of CMAGAN was compared with that of seven other algorithms,including state-of-the-art GAN-based methods,and the results indicated that CMAGAN could provide higher-quality augmented results.

Strengthening effects of various grain boundaries with nano-spacing as barriers of dislocation motion from molecular dynamics simulations

Strengthening in metals is traditionally achieved through the controlled creation of various grain boundaries(GBs),such as low-angle GBs,high-angle GBs,and twin boundaries(TBs).In the present study,a series of large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with spherical nanoindentation and carefully designed model were conducted to investigate and compare the strengthening effects of various GBs with nano-spacing as barriers of dislocation motion.Simulation results showed that high-angle twist GBs and TBs are similar barriers and low-angle twist GBs are less effective in obstructing dislocation motion.Corresponding atomistic mechanisms were also given.At a certain indentation depth,dislocation transmission and dislocation nucleation from the other side of boundaries were observed for low-angle twist GBs,whereas dislocations were completely blocked by high-angle twist GBs and TBs at the same indentation depth.The current findings should provide insights for comprehensive understanding of the strengthening effects of various GBs at nanoscale.