Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 803, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2020.140726
Keywords
Carbon nanotubes; Aluminum matrix composites; Bimodal grain structure; Strain hardening; Mechanical properties
Categories
Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB1201105]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51671130, 51871149, 51971206]
- Innovation Foundation of Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology [SAST2018064]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [19ZR1474900]
- Aeronautical Science Foundation of China [2017ZF57023]
- Administrative Committee of Maanshan Economic and Technological Development Zone
- Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory of High-end Structural Materials [hsm1803]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In this study, bimodal microstructures were prepared in CNT/Al-Mg composites with the weight fraction of coarse grains. The sample with 25 wt% coarse grains showed improved plastic deformation behavior and higher strain hardening ability. The uniform micro-strain distribution in the CG25 sample was attributed to the constrained deformation of soft coarse-grain phase by hard CNT-enriched UFG Al-Mg phase.
The uniform distribution of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can lead to severe grain refinement to ultrafine-grained (UFG) regime of Al matrix, resulting in low strain hardening ability, thereby low ductility in CNT/Al composites. To evade this dilemma, CNT/Al-Mg composites with bimodal microstructures were prepared by a powder assembly process in this study. The effects of weight/volume fraction of coarse grains on microstructure evolution, plastic deformation behavior and micro-strain distribution were investigated. The elongation improved from 4.2% of the uniform microstructure to 5.2% for the bimodal CNT/Al-Mg composites with 25 wt% (CG25) coarse grains. The compression stress relaxation test revealed the enhanced effective stress and activation of multiple dislocation-mediated mechanisms during plastic deformation in the CG25 sample, which lead to sustainably higher strain hardening ability. The uniform micro-strain distribution was revealed in the CG25 sample by Kernel average misorientation analysis, attributed to the constrained deformation of soft coarse-grain phase by hard CNT-enriched UFG Al-Mg phase.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available