J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (11): 2069-2083.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2018.04.005

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Role of pre-vertical compression in deformation behavior of Mg alloy AZ31B during super-high reduction hot rolling process

Weitao Jia*(), Qichi Le*(), Yan Tang, Yunpeng Ding, Fangkun Ning, Jianzhong Cui   

  1. Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Processing of Materials, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
  • Received:2017-11-26 Revised:2018-01-10 Accepted:2018-01-11 Online:2018-11-20 Published:2018-11-26
  • Contact: Jia Weitao,Le Qichi

Abstract:

Mg alloy AZ31B plates were processed by hot rolling with different thickness reductions per pass and pre-vertical compression followed by super-high reduction hot rolling (PVCR), respectively. Microstructure evolution, rolling formability variation and mechanical responses were investigated. As reduction per pass increased, the number of shear bands deflecting toward rolling direction increased, resulting in easy crack initiation in and around the bands. With increasing reduction per pass up to 80%, twinning and twinning-induced dynamic recrystallization (DRX) dominated the deformation of the edge material at 350 °C, resulting in local recrystallization with coarse grains and further largest edge-crack degree. Pre-induced {101ˉ2} tensile twins by pre-vertical compression (PVC) increased number density of nucleation sites for dynamic recrystallization during the subsequent severe rolling, which enhanced the dominant role of continuous dynamic recrystallization. Designed PVCR-b was proved to be a relatively effective method to improve rolling formability of rolled Mg alloy AZ31B plates. With this method, mean grain size of AZ31B plate was significantly refined from ~600 mm to ~14.1 mm and more homogeneous grain size distribution along transverse direction (TD) was achieved. In addition, basal texture intensity was greatly weakened. As a result, tensile anisotropy was distinctly decreased and fracture elongation increased dramatically.

Key words: Pre-vertical compression, Shear bands, Tensile twins, Dynamic recrystallization, Tensile anisotropy