Enhanced tensile ductility of an ultra-fine-grained aluminium alloy
Sabirov, I., Estrin, Y., Barnett, M., Timokhina, I. and Hodgson, P. 2008, Enhanced tensile ductility of an ultra-fine-grained aluminium alloy, Scripta Materialia, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 163-166.
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Enhanced tensile ductility of an ultra-fine-grained aluminium alloy
Aluminum alloy 6082 was subjected to equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP), which resulted in an ultra-fine-grained (UFG) microstructure with an average grain size of 0.2–0.4 μm. There was a pronounced effect of the grain refinement on the strain-rate sensitivity and tensile ductility. The Hart criterion of tensile necking fails to explain the observed ductility of the UFG material at low strain rates. A correlation between the observed stronger-than-expected ductility and a tendency to microshear band formation at low strain rates was established.