Nanostructural Evolution and Deformation Mechanisms of Severely Deformed Pure Fe

Forouzanmehr, Nazanin; Jafarian, H.R.; Samadi-khoshkhoo, M.; Bönisch, Matthias; Nili‐Ahmadabadi, Mahmoud

doi:10.1007/s12540-019-00575-x

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“…Among the numerous SPD processes, high-pressure torsion (HPT) [5,6] is a considerable and widely applied method for investigating the significance of SPD on metallic alloys. Enormous shear strain of this technique produces an ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure and may result Materials 2024, 17, 585 2 of 14 in the formation of nanoprecipitates in the processed materials [7][8][9][10][11]. In this regard, the mechanical and microstructural characteristics of UFG materials processed via HPT are also affected by the dissolving and precipitating of nanosized-dispersoids, in addition to the effect of the density of defects [12][13][14].…”

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Microstructure Evolution during High-Pressure Torsion in a 7xxx AlZnMgZr Alloy

Ahmed,

Olasz,

Bobruk

et al. 2024

Materials

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A homogenized, supersaturated AlZnMgZr alloy was processed via severe plastic deformation (SPD) using a high-pressure torsion (HPT) technique for different revolutions at room temperature to obtain an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure. The microstructure and mechanical properties of the UFG samples were then studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and tensile and hardness measurements. The main purpose was to study the effect of shear strain on the evolution of the microstructure of the investigated alloy. We found a very interesting evolution of the decomposed microstructure in a wide range of shear strains imposed by HPT. While the global properties, such as the average grain size (~200 nm) and hardness (~2200 MPa) appeared unchanged, the local microstructure was continuously transformed. After 1 turn of HPT, the decomposed UFG structure contained relatively large precipitates inside grains. In the sample processed by five turns in HPT, the segregation of Zn atoms into grain boundaries (GBs) was also observed. After 10 turns, more Zn atoms were segregated into GBs and only smaller-sized precipitates were observed inside grains. The intensive solute segregations into GBs may significantly affect the ductility of the material, leading to its ultralow-temperature superplasticity. Our findings pave the way for achieving advanced microstructural and mechanical properties in nanostructured metals and alloys by engineering their precipitation and segregation by means of applying different HPT regimes.

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