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Microstructure Change During High Strain Rate Superplastic Deformation in a PM 7475 AL-0. 7ZR Alloy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

K. Matsuki ,
M. Tokizawa  and
Y. Murakami
K. Matsuki
Affiliation:
Toyama University, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930 JAPAN
M. Tokizawa
Affiliation:
Toyama University, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama, 930 JAPAN
Y. Murakami
Affiliation:
The New Material Center, The Foundation of Osaka Science and Technology Center, 1-8-4 Utsubo Honmachi, Nishiku, Osaka, 550 JAPAN
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Abstract

Improvements of superplasticity in the high strain rate range have been achieved in a 7475 Al alloy with 0. 7 wt% Zr produced from rapidly solidified powder (PM7475-0.7Zr alloy), and the superplastic properties and microstructural changes with strain have been investigated.

The PM 7475-0.7 Zr alloy has a cold rolling structure, but on heating to the superplastic temperature of 520°C, the alloy developed a very fine subgrain structure of average subgrain size of less than 1 μm. The fine structure was stabilized with metastable cubic Al3Zr precipitate dispersions, and there exist a large number of less than 5° misorientation subboundaries together with a small number of highly misoriented ones.

After 117% strain at the high strain rate of 2. 5×10−1 S−1 the subboundaries with the misorientation of 5° – 15° Were observed to increase. During the initial stage of the deformation, m value and the contribution of boundary sliding to the deformation also increased with strain, and thus the alloy behaved superplastically during the following deformation.

The improvements of superplasticity with strain in the early stage of the high strain rate deformation of the alloy were interpreted to be closely related with the increase in misorientation of subboundaries stabilized with finely dispersed metastable Al3Zr precipitates.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 196: Symposium T – Superplasticity in Metals, Ceramics, and Intermetallics , 1990 , 265
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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