Microstructure and mechanical properties of extruded and ECAPed AZ31 Mg alloy, grain refined with Al-Ti-C master alloy.pdf

Materials Science and Engineering A 527 (2010) 3515–3520 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials Science and Engineering A j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/msea Microstructure and mechanical properties of extruded and ECAPed AZ31 Mg alloy, grain refined with Al-Ti-C master alloy S.A. Torbati-Sarraf, R. Mahmudi ∗ School of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Different amounts of Al-3Ti-0.15C master alloy (TiCAl), as grain refiner, were added to the AZ31 magne- Received 26 January 2010 sium alloy (Mg-3Al-1Zn-0.3Mn) and the resulting microstructure, grain size distributions, texture, and Received in revised form 6 February 2010 mechanical properties were studied after extrusion and equal channel angular pressing (ECAP). Results Accepted 10 February 2010 showed that the addition of 1.0 wt.% TiCAl had the strongest grain refinement effect, reducing the grain sizes by 51.2 and 38.4% in the extruded and ECAPed conditions, respectively. The observed grain refine- ment was in part due to the presence of the thermally stable micron- and submicron-sized particles in Keywords: the melt which act as nucleation sites during solidification. During the high-temperature extrusion and AZ31 ECAP ECAP processes, dynamic recrystallization (DRX) and grain growth are l