Superplasticity at elevated temperature of an Mg–8%Li–2%Zn alloy.pdf

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 541 (2012) 372–375 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Alloys and Compounds journal homepag e: www.elsevier.c om/locate/jalcom Superplasticity at elevated temperature of an Mg–8%Li–2%Zn alloy Xuhe Liu ⇑, Ruizhi Wu ⇑, Zhongyi Niu, Jinghuai Zhang, Milin Zhang Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials Surface Technology (Harbin Engineering University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150001, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: An Mg–8%Li–2%Zn (LZ82) alloy was prepared by melt casting and then extruded and rolled, the super- Received 8 May 2012 plasticity at elevated temperature of the specimens of obtained alloy at the temperature range of Received in revised form 14 June 2012 423 K–523 K under the initial strain rate of 1.6 104–1.0 102 s1 was investigated. The results indi- Accepted 15 June 2012 cate that the alloy exhibits significant superplasticity with a maximum elongation of 430% at the temper- Available online 3 July 2012 ature of 498 K, even when the temperature decrease to 423 K, the maximum elongation exceed 100%, reached 120%. The activation energy under the optimum condition is 99.24 kJ/mol, and the strain rate Keywords: sensitivity m is measured as 0.55, indicating that the dominant deformation mechanism in the alloy is Mg–Li alloy