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Solid solution strengthening and texture evolution in Mg-Y alloys

<p>Tension and compression experiments have been carried out on a series of Mg-Y alloys with Y content up to 1.3 at.%, in a range of temperatures between 4.2K and 298K, to study the effect of Yttrium on mechanical properties and strain hardening. The alloys show strong difference in the hardening behavior under tension and compression attributed to the effect of texture. The yield strength scales with concentration of the solute as c<sup>n</sup>, where c is the concentration of the solute in atomic percent and n~2/3. The results suggest that in addition to the atomic size and modulus misfit effects, the valence may be responsible for the enhanced strengthening of Y in Mg. Strain rate sensitivity measurements carried out under tension and compression reveal that Mg-Y alloys show decreasing SRS with increasing Y content at 298K and exhibit a negative SRS in highly concentrated alloys. At low temperatures the alloys show positive SRS increased with Y content. Texture measurements suggest that increasing Y content in alloys decreases the amount of basal component and enhances non-basal orientations. The reduced yield asymmetry between tension and compression observed in higher Y content alloys is being attributed to the weakening of the basal texture.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/13272
Date10 1900
CreatorsJIA, XIAOHUI
ContributorsNiewczas, Marek, Materials Science and Engineering
Source SetsMcMaster University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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