Evolution of twinning and shear bands in magnesium alloys during rolling at room and cryogenic temperature
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Author(s)
Zhang, Kai
Zheng, Jing-Hua
Huang, Yan
Pruncu, Catalin
Jiang, Jun
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Twinning and shear bands are two main deformation structures in magnesium alloys at low temperatures, however, the relationship between these two deformation structures is still under debate. To clarify their relationship and behaviours at low temperatures, rolling tests to various thickness reductions at room temperature (RT) and liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) were conducted for AZ31 magnesium alloys. The evolutions of shear bands and twinning, and their interactions with geometrically necessary dislocation (GND), were observed during the RT- and LNT-rolling process. Abundant shear bands, evolving from {101 ̅1}-{101 ̅2} double twins (DTWs), were observed in the RT-rolled samples, while a high quantity of twins, including {101 ̅2} tension twins (TTWs), twin-twin interactions and twinning sequence, were observed in the LNT-rolled samples. More importantly, a rarely observed twinning sequence behaviour, namely primary TTW-TTW interactions→ secondary TTW-TTW interactions, creating a 45° <202 ̅1 ̅> misorientation peak, was studied. Abundant GNDs accumulated around these twin-twin interactions, twinning sequence, DTWs and shear bands, while the GND density was low around TTWs. This research delivers a systematic investigation into the deformation structures in Mg alloys during the rolling process from RT to cryogenic temperature and provides insights into the newly discovered twinning sequence and twin-twin interactions.
Date Issued
2020-08-01
Date Acceptance
2020-05-07
Citation
Materials and Design, 2020, 193, pp.1-11
ISSN
0264-1275
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
11
Journal / Book Title
Materials and Design
Volume
193
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Identifier
PII: S0264-1275(20)30327-0
Grant Number
EP/R001715/1 / PO 2105860
Subjects
Materials
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
0912 Materials Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 108793
Date Publish Online
2020-05-19