Stabilization of metastable phases in Mg–Li alloys.pdf

Available online at Scripta Materialia 68 (2013) 583–586 /locate/scriptamat Stabilization of metastable phases in Mg–Li alloys by high-pressure torsion a,⇑ b,c ´ d ´ a B. Srinivasarao, A.P. Zhilyaev, I. Gutierrez-Urrutia and M.T. Perez-Prado aIM DEA-Materials Institute, C/Eric Kandel, 2, 28906 Getafe, Madrid, Spain bMaterials Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK cInstitute for Metals Superplasticity Problems, RAS, 450001 Ufa, Russia dMax Plank Institut fur Eisenforschung, Max Planck Strasse, 1, 40237 Dusseldorf, Germany ¨ Received 27 November 2012; revised 5 December 2012; accepted 6 December 2012 Available online 14 December 2012 In this work we demonstrate that pure compression of the single phase bcc Mg–12 wt.% Li and Mg–20 wt.% Li alloys in a high- pressure torsion system induces the precipitation of hexagonal close-packed (hcp) Mg and hcp Li-rich phases, which remain stable under ambient conditions. This transformation is enhanced with increasing pressure. Shearing under pressure of the multiphase microstructure results in the dissolution of the metastable hcp phases and the subsequent growth of the bcc matrix grains. 2012 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevie