Journal
ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adem.202000407
Keywords
AZ91; electrostatic fields; heat treatment; magnesium alloys; mechanical properties
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51701124, 51771120]
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The study investigates the effects of an electrostatic field on the microstructure and mechanical properties of AZ91 alloy during aging treatment. It is found that the electrostatic field can modify precipitate distributions, refining continuous precipitates while suppressing discontinuous precipitates. The mechanism involves the enhancement of bulk diffusion by the electrostatic field, improving the competitiveness of continuous precipitates against discontinuous precipitates.
The effects of electrostatic field on the microstructure and mechanical properties of AZ91 alloy during ageing treatment are studied. It is shown that electrostatic field can modify the precipitate distributions. With the help of electrostatic field (intensity 4 kV cm(-1)), the continuous precipitate (CP) is refined, whereas the discontinuous precipitate (DP) is suppressed to some extent. The tensile yield strength of peak-aged AZ91 alloy is improved from 156 to 169 MPa. The mechanism by which the electrostatic field modifies the precipitate distributions is discussed via the resistivity data combined with the classical theory of vacancy-dominant diffusion. It is shown that the electrostatic field probably enhances the bulk diffusion and then improves the competitiveness of CP against DP.
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