Development of nanostructure in AZ31 magnesium alloy during accumulative roll bonding process
by A. Sadeghi, A. Akbarzadeh
International Journal of Nanomanufacturing (IJNM), Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 2010

Abstract: Accumulative roll bonding (ARB) is one of the effective severe plastic deformation methods for developing very fine grained nanostructures. In the present work, grain refinement and microstructural changes of magnesium AZ31 alloy during ARB process was investigated. Sheet specimens up to 256 cold welded layers (eight ARB cycles) were prepared. Evolution of the microstructure was observed using optical microscopy. It is shown that various mechanisms such as rotational recrystallisation (RRX) and twinning are involved in grain refinement at different passes. Increasing the number of ARB cycles leads to an ultra fine grain (UFG) microstructure (almost 500 nm) surrounded by nanoscale grain zones (almost 120 nm). The microstructural evolution is explained by grain refinement along the deformation bands by means of geometrical recrystallisation, RRX and progressive lattice rotation.

Online publication date: Fri, 02-Jul-2010

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