Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters) ›› 2022, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (5): 757-762.DOI: 10.1007/s40195-021-01305-2

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Achieving Superior Superplasticity in a Mg-6Al-Zn Plate via Multi-pass Submerged Friction Stir Processing

Xicai Luo1, Haolin Liu1, Limei Kang1, Jielin Lin1, Datong Zhang2(), Dongyang Li3, Daolun Chen4()   

  1. 1School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Guangzhou Railway Polytechnic, Guangzhou, 510430, China
    2Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials Processing, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China
    3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H5, Canada
    4Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada
  • Received:2021-05-20 Revised:2021-07-27 Accepted:2021-08-09 Online:2022-05-10 Published:2021-08-27
  • Contact: Datong Zhang,Daolun Chen
  • About author:Daolun Chen, dchen@ryerson.ca
    Datong Zhang, dtzhang@scut.edu.cn;

Abstract:

A large-scale Mg-6Al-Zn plate was prepared by multi-pass submerged friction stir processing (M-SFSP) and its superplastic deformation behavior was investigated. The maximum elongation of 467%, 332% and 421% was attained for the samples oriented in the processing direction (PD), 45° tilted toward the PD, and transverse direction (TD), respectively, when deformed at 623 K and a strain rate of 1 × 10-3 s-1. This was attributed to the homogeneous and fine-grained structure with mostly high-angle grain boundaries facilitating the prevalent deformation mechanism of grain boundary sliding, along with the weakened texture and dynamic recrystallization during hot deformation.

Key words: Superplasticity, Magnesium alloy, Multi-pass friction stir processing, Microstructure, Texture