Submerged friction stir processing of AZ31 Magnesium alloy.pdf

Materials and Design 47 (2013) 133–137 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Materials and Design journal homepage: www.else /locate/matdes Submerged friction stir processing of AZ31 Magnesium alloy Basil Darras ⇑, Emad Kishta Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Friction stir processing (FSP) has recently emerged as a microstructural modification technique. FSP can Received 24 September 2012 be used to effectively produce ultrafine and homogenous grain structure. The process is found to be very Accepted 12 December 2012 sensitive to thermal histories. Peak temperature, heating and cooling rate play a crucial role in controlling Available online 26 December 2012 the resulting grain structure and consequently the mechanical properties of the processed material. In this work, AZ31 Magnesium samples were friction stir processed while sub-merged in room-temperature Keywords: and warm water. For comparison, FSP in air medium was also performed. The effects of submerging con- Friction stir processing ditions on thermal fields, power consumption, resulting grain structure and tensile properties were dis- AZ31 Magnesium alloy cussed in this work. Microstructure Thermal boundaries