Deformation and fracture mechanisms of an annealing-tailored 'bimodal' grain-structured Mg alloy

摘要

Through investigating and comparing the mechanical behavior of an as-rolled Mg-3%Al-1%Zn(wt%)alloy before and after annealing treatments,it was revealed that the formation of annealing-tailored bimodal grain structure ensured the 330℃/4 h samples having a good combination of tensile strength and plasticity.Failure analysis demonstrated that for the as-rolled and 330℃/1 h samples with fine grain structure,their plastic deformation was mainly attributed to basal slips,whereas the deformation mechanism in the bimodal grain-structured samples was dominated by basal slips in fine grains and twinning in coarse grains.For the 330℃/8 h samples with coarse grain structure,high densities of twins were activated.Meanwhile,basal slips occurred in the twinned and un-twinned areas of coarse grains and could pass through twin boundaries.For differently treated samples,cracking preferentially occurred along slip bands,resulting in their transgranular fractures.