Effect of 1Al addition on deformation behavior of Mg

Deformation behavior of 1 Al containing Mg alloy has been investigated in the present study.After annealing,the Mg-1 Al alloy shows a typical basal texture.When compared to the pure Mg having a similar texture and grain size,the Mg-1 Al alloy shows much higher strength and larger elongation.Slip trace analyses of the tensile strained specimens show that non-basal slips such as pyramidal I and II slips can be easily activated at an early stage of deformation in the Mg-1 Al alloy and the grains in the Mg-1 Al alloy are seen to accommodate a larger degree of deformation than those in the pure Mg at a given strain.With increasing tensile strain,however,there is a strain localization along the initially formed slip lines of non-basal slips,forming surface steps without activating multiple slip lines.

The relation between ductility at high temperature and solid solution in Mg alloys

This work investigates the effect of solid solution on ductility and on the activation of individual deformation mechanisms at moderate temperatures and at quasi-static strain rates in Mg-Zn and Mg-Al alloys. With that aim, four solid solution Mg-Zn and Mg-Al binary alloy ingots containing 1 and 2 wt.% solute atoms were subjected to hot rolling and subsequent annealing to generate polycrystals with similar average grain size and basal-type texture for each composition. The activity of the different slip systems after tensile testing at 150°C and at 250°C was evaluated in pure Mg and in the alloys by EBSD-assisted slip trace analysis. In addition, segregation of Zn and Al atoms at grain boundaries during the thermo-mechanical processing was characterized by HAADF-STEM and EDX. It was found that while the addition of Al and Zn atoms to pure Mg does not lead to major changes in the mechanical strength at the investigated temperatures, it does enhance ductility significantly, especially at 250℃. Our results show that this increase in ductility cannot be attributed to a higher activation of non-basal systems in the alloys, as reported earlier, as the incidence of non-basal systems is indeed considerably higher in pure Mg. This work suggests, on the contrary, that the ductility increase may be attributed to the presence of a more homogenous basal activity in the alloys due to a lower degree of orientation clustering, to grain boundary solute segregation, and to a higher slip diffusivity at grain interiors.

Dislocation me diate d dynamic tension-compression asymmetry of a Ni_(2)CoFeV_(0.5)Mo_(0.2) medium entropy alloy

Although tension-compression(T-C)asymmetry in yield strength was rarely documented in coarse-grained face centered cubic(FCC)metals as critical resolved shear stress(CRSS)for dislocation slip differs little between tension and compression,the T-C asymmetry in strength,i.e.,higher strength when loaded in compression than in tension,was reported in some FCC high entropy alloys(HEAs)due to twinning and phase transitions activated at high strain regimes in compression.In this paper,we demonstrate a reversed and atypical tension-compression asymmetry(tensile strength markedly exceeds compressive strength)in a non-equiatomic FCC Ni_(2)CoFeV_(0.5)Mo_(0.2) medium entropy alloy(MEA)under dynamic loading,wherein dislocation slip governs dynamic deformation without twins or phase transitions.The asymme-try can be primarily interpreted as higher CRSS and more hard slip modes(lower average Schmid factor)activated in grains under dynamic tension than compression.Besides,larger strain rate sensitivity in dy-namic tension overwhelmingly contributes to the higher flow stress,thanks to the occurrence of more immobile Lomer-locks,narrower spacing of planar slip bands and higher dislocation density.This finding may provide some insights into designing MEAs/HEAs with desired properties under extreme conditions such as blast,impact and crash.