On the anisotropic deformation of AZ31 Mg alloy under compression.pdf

Materials and Design 32 (2011) 5004–5009 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Materials and Design journal homepage: www.else /locate/matdes Short Communication On the anisotropic deformation of AZ31 Mg alloy under compression Qingwei Dai a,b,c, Dingfei Zhang a,b,⇑, Xi Chen c,d,e,⇑ a College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China b National Engineering Research Center for Magnesium Alloys, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China c Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA d SV Lab, School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China e Department of Civil Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The anisotropy of Mg alloy is investigated using uniaxial compression experiments. The anisotropic Received 10 April 2011 behaviors of interest include the texture, deformed shape, constitutive relationship, and fracture charac- Accepted 10 June 2011 teristics, and all of them are related to the microscopic mechanisms which include the competition Available online 28 June 2011 between twinning and slipping at different temperatures and strain rates. When the loading is perpen- dicular to the c-axis of the HCP lattice, the specimen yields at a low stress because twinning is favored at rela