TY - JOUR
T1 - High-pressure torsion for fabrication of high-strength and high-electrical conductivity Al micro-wires
AU - Cubero-Sesin, Jorge M.
AU - In, Hiroyuki
AU - Arita, Makoto
AU - Iwaoka, Hideaki
AU - Horita, Zenji
N1 - Funding Information:
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan for a PhD scholarship. 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, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in the Innovative Area ‘‘Bulk Nanostruc-tured Metals’’(22102004).
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - Iron (Fe) is commonly found in aluminum (Al), but its contents are usually kept as low as possible, because the formation of intermetallic phases may induce fracture. In this study, high-pressure torsion (HPT) was used to control the microstructure in an Al-2 %Fe alloy in conjunction with wire drawing and an aging treatment, in order to improve not only their mechanical properties but also the electrical conductivity. It is shown that HPT processing of ring-shaped samples produced ultrafine grains with a size of ~150 nm in the matrix, while intermetallic phases were fragmented to nanosizes with some Fe fraction dissolved in the matrix. Semi-rings were extracted from the HPT-processed samples and swaged to a round section with 0.4-mm diameter. The HPT-processed sample was successfully drawn to a final diameter of 0.08 mm (25:1 ratio, 96 % reduction in area), whereas the sample without HPT processing failed after drawing to 0.117-mm diameter (12:1 ratio, 91 % reduction in area). The electrical conductivity increased to ~65 IACS % in the HPT-processed rings and to ~54 IACS % in the wires by aging for 1 h after the drawing.
AB - Iron (Fe) is commonly found in aluminum (Al), but its contents are usually kept as low as possible, because the formation of intermetallic phases may induce fracture. In this study, high-pressure torsion (HPT) was used to control the microstructure in an Al-2 %Fe alloy in conjunction with wire drawing and an aging treatment, in order to improve not only their mechanical properties but also the electrical conductivity. It is shown that HPT processing of ring-shaped samples produced ultrafine grains with a size of ~150 nm in the matrix, while intermetallic phases were fragmented to nanosizes with some Fe fraction dissolved in the matrix. Semi-rings were extracted from the HPT-processed samples and swaged to a round section with 0.4-mm diameter. The HPT-processed sample was successfully drawn to a final diameter of 0.08 mm (25:1 ratio, 96 % reduction in area), whereas the sample without HPT processing failed after drawing to 0.117-mm diameter (12:1 ratio, 91 % reduction in area). The electrical conductivity increased to ~65 IACS % in the HPT-processed rings and to ~54 IACS % in the wires by aging for 1 h after the drawing.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10853-014-8240-1
DO - 10.1007/s10853-014-8240-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904749411
SN - 0022-2461
VL - 49
SP - 6550
EP - 6557
JO - Journal of Materials Science
JF - Journal of Materials Science
IS - 19
ER -