High Strength Aluminum-Magnesium Alloys: Thermomechanical Processing, Microstructure and Tensile Mechanical Properties

摘要

Microstructures and mechanical properties of thermomechanically processed Aluminum-Magnesium alloys were investigated in this research. Magnesium content of the alloys ranged from 7 to 12 weight percent and an alloy containing 10 percent Mg and 0.5 percent Cu was also examined. Thermomechanical processing treatments involved solution treatment followed by warm isothermal rolling. Temperature for this warm rolling was typically 300 C, and this is below the solvus temperature for the alloy. Such processing results in a fine dispersion of the intermetallic compound Al3Mg2 (beta) in a solid solution matrix. Typical mechanical properties are an ultimate tensile strength of 520 Mpa (75000 psi), with 12 percent elongation to fracture. Such a material may be further cold worked to ultimate tensile strengths of 620 Mpa (90000 psi), with 6 percent elongation to fracture. Dynamic recrystallization is necessary to achieve a uniform dispersion of the intermetallic in subsequent processing. (Author)