Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 214, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117013
Keywords
Magnesium alloy; Hardening; Texture; Mechanical behavior; Twinning
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51871032, 52071039, 51901202]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20202010]
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This study systematically investigated the mechanical behavior of Mg AZ31 rods under tension along the extrusion direction and the relationship with bimodal texture components. The results showed that the yield strength does not decrease linearly with an increase in the percentage of soft orientations. Bimodal texture components stimulate the activation of twin variants with a low Schmid factor, indicating that the interaction among twin variants plays a major role in twinning behavior.
The mechanical and twinning behavior of Mg alloys containing a monolithic texture component have been extensively studied; however, studies on samples with multi texture components are much insufficient. In this study, the quantitative relationship between the mechanical behavior under tension along the extrusion direction (ED) of Mg AZ31 rods and the percentages of bimodal texture components <0002>// ED (19-87%) and <0002>perpendicular to ED were systematically studied. The component <0002>// ED favors {10 (1) over bar 12} twinning and is soft orientation; however, the component <0002>perpendicular to ED favors prismatic slip and is hard orientation. The results show that the yield strength does not decrease linearly with an increase in the percentage of the soft orientations and show a deviation from the calculations using the conventional rule of mixtures. A higher percentage of the soft grains increases this deviation when the percentage is below 50%, and decreases it over 50%. The ultimate strengths, however, do not show an obvious dependence on the percentage of the soft orientations. Subsequently, the corresponding mechanisms are discussed and a modified rule of mixtures was developed. Bimodal texture components stimulate the activation of {10 (1) over bar 12} twin variants with a low Schmid factor and the presence of more variants within one grain. Conventional strain accommodation rule was used to analyze this twinning behavior, but it cannot explain the experimental observations. Crystal-plasticity based finite element modeling was employed to analyze this strange twinning behavior. The results indicate that the interaction among twin variants, rather than deformation in neighboring grains, plays a major role in the activation of twins with a low Schmid factor, due to a hard deformation propagation from the soft grains to the hard grains. This finding provides an important complementation to the strain accommodation theory. (C) 2021 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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