Superplastic deformation behavior and mechanism of 1420 Al-Li alloy sheets with elongated grains

True stress-true strain curve, microstructure and texture information were obtained to investigate the superplastic deformation behavior of 1420 Al-Li alloy sheets with initial elongated grains. From the true stress-true curve, the stress increases with the increase of strain to 0.15, then dramatically decreases with the increase of strain to 0.80, and finally keeps almost a horizontal line. Meanwhile, initial elongated grains are gradually changed into equiaxed grains and the initial strong Brass {0 1 1} 〈2 1 1〉 and S {1 2 3} 〈6 3 4〉 orientations are turned into nearly random orientation with increasing strain. All these results suggest that dislocation activity is the dominant mechanism during the first stage, then dynamic recrystallization occurs, and grain rotation is expected as an accommodation for grain boundary sliding (GBS). At larger strains, grain boundary migration (GBM) becomes necessary to accommodate GBS.