Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages 165-181Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijplas.2013.01.012
Keywords
Magnesium; Deformation; Slip; Twinning; Solute strengthening
Funding
- Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals
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Mg-Zn binary alloys with concentrations between 0 and 2.8 wt% Zn have been prepared and processed via hot rolling and annealing to produce specimens with a strong basal texture and a range of grain sizes. These have been deformed in three different strain paths: tension, compression and shear, in order to promote the dominance of prismatic slip, {1 0 (1) over bar 2} twinning and basal slip, respectively. This experimental data has been used to create Hall-Petch plots for each deformation mode. It has been found that the prismatic slip system has a plateau in its Hall-Petch plot above grain sizes of 30 mu m, and solute softening of the prismatic system was found to be operative only at grain sizes above similar to 50 mu m. In compression, the stress required to activate twinning was found to be insensitive to Zn concentration. It is proposed that solute softening and anomalous Hall-Petch behaviour of prismatic slip be understood in terms of the dominance of the cross-slip stress in coarse grained materials. The effect of grain size on the relative strength of basal slip, prismatic slip and {1 0 (1) over bar 2} twinning is also discussed. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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