Structure uniformity and limits of grain refinement of high purity aluminum during multi-directional forging process at room temperature

The effect of forging passes on the refinement of high purity aluminum during multi-forging was investigated. The attention was focused on the structure uniformity due to deformation uniformity and the grain refinement limitation with very high strains. The results show that the fine grain zone in the center of sample expands gradually with the increase of forging passes. When the forging passes reach 6, an X-shape fine grain zone is initially formed. With a further increase of the passes, this X-shape zone tends to spread the whole sample. Limitation in the structural refinement is observed with increasing strains during multi-forging process at the room temperature. The grains size in the center is refined to a certain size （110 μm as forging passes reach 12, and there is no further grain refinement in the center with increasing the forging passes to 24. However, the size of the coarse grains near the surface is continuously decreased with increasing the forging passes to 24.

Recrystallization behavior of high purity aluminum at 300℃

The recrystallization behavior of 98.5% cold rolled high purity aluminum foils annealed at 300 ℃ was investigated,and the evolution of the microstructures was followed by electron back scattered diffraction(EBSD).The results show that the recrystallization process of the high purity aluminum foils at 300 ℃ is a mixture of discontinuous-and continuous-recrystallization.The orientations of the recrystallization nuclei include not only the cube orientation,but also other orientations such as some near deformation texture components which are the results of strong recovery process.However,such continuously recrystallized grains are usually associated with relatively high free energy,so they would be consumed by the discontinuously-recrystallized grains(cube-oriented grains)in subsequent annealing.On the other hand,the pattern quality index of recrystallized grains shows dependence on the crystal orientation which might introduce some errors into evaluating volume fraction of recrystallization by integrating pattern quality index of EBSD.

Baise Mining Group's 300,000 t/a Aluminum Project Achieved Production Target, 10000 t/a High Purity Aluminum Project Broke Ground

The 10000 t/a high purity aluminum engineering project in Baise Mining Group’s Coal-power-aluminum Integration Project started construction at Tianyang Xinshan Aluminum Industrial Park.Following the successful production launching of Baise Mining Group’s Coal-power-aluminum Integration Xinshan Project-Phase I2×350MW coal-fired unit self supply