TY - JOUR
T1 - An investigation of microstructural evolution during equal-channel angular pressing
AU - Iwahashi, Y.
AU - Horita, Z.
AU - Nemoto, M.
AU - Langdon, T. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements-We thank Mr T. Sano and Mr Y. Nishihata for their help in the design and construction of the ECA pressing facility and Mr T. Fujinami and Mr H. Matsui for experimental assistance. We are especially grateful to Professor R. Z. Valiev (Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Russia) for many helpful discussions concerning the principles and practice of ECA pressing. This work was supported in part by the Light Metals Educational Foundation of Japan, in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan, and in part by the National Science Foundation of the United States under Grants No. INT-9602919 and DMR-9625969.
PY - 1997/11
Y1 - 1997/11
N2 - Experiments were conducted to investigate the development of an ultra-fine grain size during equal-channel angular (ECA) pressing of high purity aluminum with an initial grain size of ∼1.0 mm. The results show that, under ECA pressing conditions giving a strain of ∼1.05 on each passage through the die, the microstructure is reasonably homogeneous after a single pressing and consists of parallel bands of elongated subgrains, having an average length of ∼4 μm, and these subgrains are further divided by boundaries with very low angles of misorientation. Repetitive pressings were conducted on the same samples, up to a total of 10 passages through the die, with the samples pressed either without rotation (route A) or after rotating through 180° between each pressing (route C). It is demonstrated that the misorientations of the subgrain boundaries increase with repetitive pressings until ultimately both routes lead to a similar equiaxed ultra-fine grain size of ∼1 μm after 10 pressings, but the microstructural evolution is enhanced using route C where there is a more rapid transition into an array of high angle grain boundaries. The results suggest that, at least for high purity aluminum, an ultra-fine microstructure close to optimum may be obtained after only 4 pressings provided the sample is rotated through 180° between each pressing.
AB - Experiments were conducted to investigate the development of an ultra-fine grain size during equal-channel angular (ECA) pressing of high purity aluminum with an initial grain size of ∼1.0 mm. The results show that, under ECA pressing conditions giving a strain of ∼1.05 on each passage through the die, the microstructure is reasonably homogeneous after a single pressing and consists of parallel bands of elongated subgrains, having an average length of ∼4 μm, and these subgrains are further divided by boundaries with very low angles of misorientation. Repetitive pressings were conducted on the same samples, up to a total of 10 passages through the die, with the samples pressed either without rotation (route A) or after rotating through 180° between each pressing (route C). It is demonstrated that the misorientations of the subgrain boundaries increase with repetitive pressings until ultimately both routes lead to a similar equiaxed ultra-fine grain size of ∼1 μm after 10 pressings, but the microstructural evolution is enhanced using route C where there is a more rapid transition into an array of high angle grain boundaries. The results suggest that, at least for high purity aluminum, an ultra-fine microstructure close to optimum may be obtained after only 4 pressings provided the sample is rotated through 180° between each pressing.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1359-6454(97)00100-6
DO - 10.1016/S1359-6454(97)00100-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031270114
SN - 1359-6454
VL - 45
SP - 4733
EP - 4741
JO - Acta Materialia
JF - Acta Materialia
IS - 11
ER -