介绍一种用于AZ31镁合金的新型连续塑性工艺,即闭式锻造挤压.采用光学显微镜、扫描电子显微镜、电子背散射衍射和拉伸和压缩试验研究合金微观结构的演变和强化机制.结果表明,该工艺可以促进动态再结晶,消除粗大的未动态再结晶晶粒区域,有效细化晶粒,并提高合金的强度、塑性和各向异性.晶粒细化主要归功于应力,促进再结晶的形核并细化组织.完全再结晶的超细晶组织同时提高了强度和塑性.经过60 s封闭锻造和连续挤压后,合金表现出较高的力学性能,其拉伸屈服强度、抗拉强度、抗压强度、伸长率和屈服不对称性分别为305 MPa、337 MPa、295 MPa、27%和0.97.
A novel continuous plastic process employed on AZ31 Mg alloy called closed forging extrusion (CFE) was presented. The optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, electron back-scatter diffraction and tensile and compressive tests were employed to investigate the microstructure evolution and strengthening mechanism. The results indicated that the CFE-process can promote dynamic recrystallization (DRX), eliminate the coarsen unDRXed grain regions, refine the grains effectively, and improve the strength, plasticity and anisotropy of the alloy. The grain refinement was mainly attributed to the stress, which facilitated the nucleation of recrystallization and refined the microstructure via the CFE. The fully DRXed ultrafine grained structure improved the strength and plasticity simultaneously. After 60 s closed forging and continuous extrusion, the alloy exhibits relatively high TYS, UTS, CYS, elongation and yield asymmetry of 305 MPa, 337 MPa, 295 MPa, 27%and 0.97, respectively.