应用等通道转角挤压(ECAP)技术制备超细晶钛合金

等通道转角挤压(equal channel angular pressing,ECAP)是一种强塑性变形技术,能有效细化材料的微观组织,提高材料性能,改善难变形材料的成形性.简述了ECAP技术制备超细晶钛合金的原理和技术现状,分析了不同工艺参数对钛合金ECAP变形过程和材料性能的影响以及晶粒细化的微观机制.     

等径角挤压工艺的研究进展

等径角挤压(ECAP)是一种以纯剪切方式实现块体材料大塑性变形从而获得超细晶材料的工艺。介绍了ECAP工艺的技术原理、工艺路线、研究现状及该工艺存在的优缺点。阐述了目前基于传统ECAP工艺的改进工艺的研究状况,包括ECAP模具的改进以及传统ECAP工艺与其他工艺的合成两个方面的内容,并预期了今后ECAP工艺的发展方向。     

钛及钛合金ECAP变形研究进展

综述了等径变曲通道变形(Equal channel angular pressing,ECAP)技术制备超细晶(Ultra fine grain,UFG)钛及钛合金的研究进展。总结了模具参数、变形工艺参数对钛及钛合金ECAP变形及组织的影响,以期通过制定合理的变形工艺制备出组织均匀、性能优良的超细晶钛及钛合金,同时汇总了钛及钛合金ECAP变形组织变形机理、演变机理、ECAP变形组织稳定性及超细晶材料性能(超塑性、疲劳强度、耐腐蚀性等)的研究进展,最后指出ECAP制备超细晶钛及钛合金的研究方向。     

等通道挤压制备铝基细晶材料的研究进展

近年来,铝基材料因高的比强度和断裂韧性在工业领域获得广泛应用。剧烈塑性变形(SPD)加工是目前最有效的金属细晶化工艺,其中等通道挤压工艺(ECAP)因可稳定制备出具有良好综合性能的超细晶或纳米晶铝基材料而备受关注。本文综述了利用ECAP技术制备铝基细晶材料的相关研究进展,利用有限元模拟和实验综合探讨了挤压温度、摩擦系数、挤压速度、挤压路径、背压等工艺参数对铝基材料ECAP过程的影响,并通过分析国内外最新铝基材料ECAP工艺成果展望该工艺可能的发展方向。     

ECAP变形与材料组织性能控制的研究

等径弯曲通道变形(ECAP)是制备超细晶材料的新工艺,其基本原理是将试样放入横截面形状完全相同、并成一定角度的弯曲通道中,试样在压力作用下通过通道时,在通道弯曲处产生一定量均匀的纯剪切变形,最终获得很高的变形量,使材料组织发生明显细化.详细介绍了ECAP变形工艺路线对晶粒细化的影响,以及ECAP变形制备超细晶材料的显微组织特征及其力学性能.     

连续变断面循环挤压与等通道转角挤压技术的工艺特征及其应用

分别论述了等通道转角挤压法与连续变断面循环挤压法这两种大塑性变形方法的工艺原理、工艺流程、模具结构、变形特征以及累积应变量与模具结构参数之间的关系;并系统介绍了这两种方法在制备纯铝、镁合金及钛合金细晶材料方面的应用,明确了连续变断面循环挤压法与等通道转角挤压法均是细化合金组织,提高材料强度、塑性等综合性能的有效途径。通过分析对比,提出这两种大塑性变形方法各自的优势和存在的问题,以及未来的发展方向。     

连续大塑性变形中压剪复合应变路径的变化与实现方法

<正>压缩-剪切(简称压剪)复合变形是大塑性变形(SPD)工艺的一种。通过剪切变形有效细化组织(超细晶乃至纳米晶),制备高性能金属材料。目前常用的压剪工艺如高压扭转(HPT)、等通道挤压(ECAP)、旋转模挤压(TE)等均存在成形载荷大、制备样品尺寸有限、变形均匀性较差、难以连续生产和调     

ECAP法制备细晶ZK60镁合金的微观组织与力学性能

利用等通道转角挤压法(ECAP)制备出了细晶ZK60合金,通过金相组织观察,拉伸性能测试,EBSD和透射电镜(TEM)研究了不同挤压温度和挤压道次对合金组织与性能的影响.结果表明:ZK60镁合金在210～240℃温度范围内进行ECAP挤压能获得较好的晶粒细化效果;在240℃进行ECAP挤压时,随着挤压道次的增加,合金晶...     

AZ31镁合金等通道转角挤压应变累积均匀性分析及组织性能研究

等通道转角挤压工艺(Equal Channel Angular Pressing,ECAP)是通过剧烈塑性变形改变微观组织结构生产超细晶粒材料的材料加工方法,工件变形的均匀性一直是ECAP 工艺过程中影响材料性能的主要原因之一.采用空间转换法实现了AZ31镁合金多道次ECAP挤压过程中有限元分析相关场量的准确传递,完成了四种不同挤压路径ECAP多道次挤压工艺的有限元模拟,获得了相应挤压件累积等效应变的分布规律.研究确定了经过四道次ECAP挤压以后等效应变累积最为均匀的挤压路径.通过微观组织观察和室温拉伸力学性能实验探讨了不同路径多道次ECAP挤压AZ31镁合金的组织性能变化规律.分析结果表明通过合适的变形路径可以获得细小而均匀的微观组织,当材料的应变累积均匀时,其力学性能也较好.     

TWIP钢在高温ECAP过程中的微观组织及孪晶行为研究

本研究通过等径通道挤压(ECAP)对孪晶诱导塑性变形钢(TWIP钢)在300℃下进行了晶粒细化,并运用金相显微镜、电子背散射衍射(EBSD)、透射电镜(TEM)观察了经不同道次挤压后TWIP钢的晶粒、孪晶形貌及位错组织。结果表明,在均匀化退火状态下,试样晶粒基本呈现等轴状态,通过测微尺测量晶粒尺寸,约为(90±30)μm。在1道次挤压后,晶粒沿剪切方向显著伸长,并有尺寸较小的新晶粒产生,许多形变孪晶在剪切带中产生。2道次挤压后新产生的细小晶粒增多,并开始产生许多微孪晶,孪晶易于在晶界处产生。经过4道次等径通道挤压,晶粒逐渐细化至超细晶状态,晶粒尺寸达到0.3~1μm,孪晶厚度随挤压道次的增多而不断减小,甚至达到几十纳米。在不同晶粒尺寸下,TWIP钢在高温ECAP过程中产生孪晶的机理不同。     

Lokale Hochverformung zur Erzeugung von ultrafeinkörnigen Zonen

Local severe plastic deformation for producing ultrafine‐grained regions The methods of severe plastic deformation are able to produce semi‐finished products with a homogenous ultrafine‐grained microstructure. An alternative option is the formation of ultrafine‐grained layers or rather a gradation of the grain size. The qualification of incremental bulk forming processes is concluded from an analysis of methods for producing ultra fine‐grained materials and the kneading in cyclic forming. Spin extrusion is investigated regarding the formation of ultra fine‐grained regions. Tests are carried out to analyse the grain refinement in cyclically deformed regions.     

Deformation mechanism and in-situ TEM compression behavior of TB8 β titanium alloy with gradient structure

Severe plastic deformation is known to induce grain refinement and gradient structure on metals'sur-faces and improve their mechanical properties.However,the fundamental mechanisms behind the grain refinement and micromechanical properties of materials subjected to severe plastic deformation are not still well studied.Here,ultrasonic surface rolling process(USRP)was used to create a gradient microstructure,consisting of amorphous,equiaxed nano-grained,nano-laminated,ultrafine laminated and ultrafine grained structure on the surface of TB8 β titanium alloy.High energy and strain drove element co-segregation on sample surface leading to an amorphous structure during USRP processing.In situ transmission electron microscope compression tests were performed in the submicron sized pillar extracted from gradient structure and coarse grain,in order to reveal the micromechanics behavior of different grain morphologies.The ultrafine grained layer exhibited the lowest yield stress in comparison with single crystal and amorphous-nanocrystalline layers;the ultrafine grained layer and single crystal had an excellent strain hardening rate.The discrepancy among the grain sizes and activated dislocation sources led to the above mentioned different properties.Dislocation activities were observed in both compression test and microstructure evolution of USRP-treated TB8 alloy.An evolution of dislocation tangles and dislocation walls into low angle grain boundaries and subsequent high angle grain bound-aries caused the grain refinement,where twinning could not be found and no phase transformation occurred.     

Deep drawing behaviour of ultrafine grained copper: modelling and experiment

Ultrafine grained materials produced by severe plastic deformation methods possess attractive mechanical properties such as high strength compared with traditional coarse grained counterparts and reasonable ductility. Between existing severe plastic deformation methods the Equal Channel Angular Pressing is the most promising for future industrial applications and can produce a variety of ultrafine grained microstructures in materials depending on route, temperature and number of passes during processing. Driven by a rising trend of miniaturisation of parts these materials are promising candidates for microforming processes. Considering that bi-axial deformation of sheet (foil) is the major operation in microforming, the investigation of the influence of the number of ECAP passes on the bi-axial ductility in micro deep drawing test has been examined by experiments and FE simulation in this study. The experiments have showed that high force was required for drawing of the samples processed by ECAP compare to coarse grained materials. The limit drawing ratio of ultrafine grained samples was in the range of 1.9–2.0 with ECAP pass number changing from 1 to 16, while a higher value of 2.2 was obtained for coarse grained copper. However, the notable decrease in tensile ductility with increase in strength was not as pronounced for bi-axial ductility. The FE simulation using standard isotropic hardening model and von Mises yielding criterion confirmed these findings.     

A New Technique for Severe Plastic Deformation: The Cone–Cone Method

A new technique for producing ultrafine grained materials by severe plastic deformation is proposed. The principle and possible design of this technique, referred to as “cone–cone method,” are outlined and the first results of numerical simulations that demonstrate its feasibility are reported. These results give promise with regard to achieving very large plastic strains and the concomitant grain refinement in sheet products.     

Microstructural change of ultrafine-grained aluminum during high-speed plastic deformation

Effect of strain rate on microstructural change in deformation of the ultrafine grained (UFG) aluminum produced by severe plastic deformation (SPD) was studied. Commercial purity 1100 aluminum sheets were highly strained up to an equivalent strain of 4.8 by the Accumulative Roll-Bonding (ARB) process at ambient temperature. The ARB-processed sheets were found to be filled with pancake-shaped ultrafine grains surrounded by high-angle grain boundaries. The ultrafine grains had a mean grain thickness of 200 nm and a mean grain length of 1100 nm. The ultrafine-grained aluminum sheets were deformed at various strain rates ranging from 2 to 6.0×10⁴ s⁻¹ by conventional rolling, ultra-high-speed rolling, and impact compression. High-speed plastic deformation generates a large amount of heat, inducing coarsening of the ultrafine grains during and after deformation. On the other hand, it was also suggested that high-speed plastic deformation is effective for grain-subdivision, in other words, ultra-grain refinement, if the effect of heat generation is extracted.     

Effects of grain size on compressive behaviour in ultrafine grained pure Mg processed by equal channel angular pressing at room temperature

Ultrafine-grained pure magnesium with an average grain size of 0.8 μm was produced by refining coarse-grained (980 μm) ingot by multi-pass equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) at room temperature with the application of a back pressure. The compressive deformation behaviour at room temperature depended on grain size, with deformation twinning and associated work hardening observed in coarse-grained Mg, but absent in the ultrafine grained material as decreasing grain size raised the stress for twinning above that for dislocation slip. The ultrafine grained Mg showed good plasticity with prolonged constant stress after some initial strain hardening.     

Repetitive Corrugation and Straightening of Sheet Metals

Recently, severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques have been gaining wide popularity in developing nano/ultrafine grained (UFG) structured materials for a wide variety of applications. Among SPD techniques, there are a few techniques that are specially used to process metallic sheets and plates. Repetitive corrugation and straightening (RCS) is one such promising technique, which can produce fine grained structures in metallic sheets or plates in bulk. The process was introduced to develop UFG metallic sheets and plates nearly a decade ago and is now gaining great interest in the material processing field. The aim of the present review is to give a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art of the process in developing fine grained structured sheets. Emphasis has been given to discuss different material systems processed by RCS. The mechanism behind the grain refinement during RCS, promising applications, and future perspectives in developing UFG structured sheets or plates by RCS are also discussed.     

Macro‐ and Nanomechanical Properties and Strain Rate Sensitivity of Accumulative Roll Bonded and Equal Channel Angular Pressed Ultrafine‐Grained Materials

Several processes of severe plastic deformation are suitable for the production of materials with ultrafine‐grained microstructures which are known to exhibit high strength and often good ductility as well as strain rate sensitive behavior. The most promising ones are equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) for bulk material and accumulative roll bonding (ARB) for the production of sheet material. In order to evaluate the influence of the process on these mechanical properties and the strain rate sensitivity, tensile tests, and nanoindentation tests were performed on material produced up to similar effective plastic strains of ε_ARB = 6.4 and ε_ECAP = 6.3. It could be shown that the macroscopic strength is slightly higher for ARB than for ECAP material and vice versa in nanoindentation. Independent of the testing method, the strain rate sensitivities and activation volumes are similar for both materials. Thus, both processes performed up to similar effective plastic strains lead to comparable improvements in the mechanical properties. Additionally it could be shown, that this comparison allows the identification of the dominant deformation mechanism which is responsible for the observed strain rate sensitivity.