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Coherent second phase often exhibits anisotropic morphology with specific orientations with respect to both the second and the matrix phases. As a key feature of microstructure, the morphology of the coherent particles is essential for understanding the second-phase strengthening effect in various industrial alloys. This letter reports anisotropic ...
Published in Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters)
Particle reinforced magnesium matrix composite (PMMC) possesses the merits of high specific strength, high specific modulus, better dimensional stability, good wear resistance and lower production cost, which is thought as a promising material in the field of aerospace, automobile, electronic communication, etc. To eliminate the casting defect, the...
Published in Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters)
Mg and its alloys are the lightest structural metals available and are extremely attractive for applications as lightweight components, particularly in the automobile, electronic, and aerospace industries. The global market for wrought Mg alloys has steadily expanded over the past decade. And numerous studies have been carried out to meet this incr...
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In as-welded state, each region of 2219 aluminum alloy TIG-welded joint shows different microstructure and microhardness due to the different welding heat cycles and the resulting evolution of second phases. After the post-weld heat treatment, both the amount and the size of the eutectic structure or θ phases decreased. Correspondingly, both the Cu...
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The work is mainly to study the thermal stability including the phase stability, microstructure and tribo-mechanical properties of the AlB2-type WB2 and W–B–N (5.6 at.% N) films annealed in vacuum at various temperatures, which are deposited on Si and GY8 substrates by magnetron sputtering. For the WB2 and W–B–N films deposited on Si wafers, as the...
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Previous studies showed that significant increases in elongation in Mg–Ce alloys due to the Ce addition and the solute drag effect by Ce addition were ascribed to the non-basal dislocation slip activating and the texture altering. The microstructure evolution and deformation models of extruded Mg-0.5 wt%Ce alloy rods under uniaxial tension have bee...
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Casting magnesium alloys hold the greatest share of magnesium application products due to their short processing period, low cost and near net shape forming. Compared with conventional commercial magnesium alloys or other Mg–RE-based alloys, the novel Mg–RE–TM cast alloys with long period stacking ordered (LPSO) phases usually possess a higher stre...
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The synergistic effect of NaCl and SO2 on the atmospheric corrosion of zinc has been studied at equivalent total but different ratios of molar deposition rate under wet–dry cyclic conditions. The results show that the corrosion rates, corrosion morphologies and the composition of the corrosion products are strongly influenced by the molar depositio...
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The dynamic mechanical relaxation behavior of Ti36.2Zr30.3Cu8.3Fe4Be21.2 bulk metallic glass with good glass-forming ability was investigated by mechanical spectroscopy. The mechanical relaxation behavior was analyzed in the framework of quasi-point defects model. The experimental results demonstrate that the atomic mobility of the metallic glass i...
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The correlation between crystal rotation and redundant shear strain in rolled single crystals was investigated by using the crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) model in this paper. The deformation in aluminium single crystals of four representative orientations (rotated-Cube, Goss, Copper, and Brass) after rolling and plain strain compression ...
