Improving yield strength and asymmetry is critical to expand applications of magnesium alloys in industry for higher fuel efficiency and lower CO2 production. Grain refinement is an efficient method for strengthening low symmetry magnesium alloys, achievable by precipitate refinement. This study provides guidance on how precipitate engineering will improve mechanical properties through grain refinement. Precipitate refinement for improving yield strengths and asymmetry is simulated quantitatively by coupling a stochastic second phase grain refinement model and a modified polycrystalline crystal viscoplasticity φ-model. Using the stochastic second phase grain refinement model, grain size is quantitatively determined from the precipitate size and volume fraction. Yield strengths, yield asymmetry, and deformation behavior are calculated from the modified φ-model. If the precipitate shape and size remain constant, grain size decreases with increasing precipitate volume fraction. If the precipitate volume fraction is kept constant, grain size decreases with decreasing precipitate size during precipitate refinement. Yield strengths increase and asymmetry approves to one with decreasing grain size, contributed by increasing precipitate volume fraction or decreasing precipitate size.
Strengthening and Improving Yield Asymmetry of Magnesium Alloys by Second Phase Particle Refinement Under the Guidance of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
CSMD,
Richland, WA 99352
Pratt & Whitney,
East Hartford, CT 06118
e-mail: dongshengli@gmail.com
CSMD,
Richland, WA 99352
CSMD,
Richland, WA 99352
Pratt & Whitney,
East Hartford, CT 06118
e-mail: dongshengli@gmail.com
CSMD,
Richland, WA 99352
Contributed by the Materials Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY. Manuscript received March 12, 2014; final manuscript received March 24, 2015; published online May 8, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Said Ahzi.
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Li, D., and Lavender, C. (May 8, 2015). "Strengthening and Improving Yield Asymmetry of Magnesium Alloys by Second Phase Particle Refinement Under the Guidance of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering." ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. July 2015; 137(3): 031008. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4030356
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