Microstructure and corrosion behavior of AZ31 alloys prepared by dual directional extrusion.pdf

Materials and Design 36 (2012) 687–693 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Materials and Design journal homepage: www.else /locate/matdes Microstructure and corrosion behavior of AZ31 alloys prepared by dual directional extrusion Liwei Lu a, Tianmo Liu a,⇑, Jian Chen a, Zhongchang Wang b,⇑ a College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, PR China b WPI Research Center, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Microstructure evolution and corrosion behavior of Mg alloys AZ31 processed by a severe plastic Received 8 November 2011 deformation technique, dual directional extrusion (DDE) are reported. The forward extrusion (FE) tech- Accepted 12 December 2011 nique is also taken into account on the AZ31 alloys for comparison. Mean grains for the samples extruded Available online 19 December 2011 by the DDE are refined significantly with increased extrusion ratio and lowered extrusion temperature, which as a result enhance resistance against salt corrosion. The alloys extruded by the DDE exhibit better Keywords: corrosion resistance than those by the FE, which is explained by the finer grains, more homogeneous C. Extrusion microstructure, and lower density of dislocation in the DD