Effect of Microporosity on the Tensile Properties of High-Pressure Die-Cast AM50 Magnesium Alloy

Abstract:

Cast Magnesium alloys often exhibit large variability in fracture related properties such as ductility. In this study, the characteristics of micro-voids in high-pressure die-cast (HPDC) AM50 alloy were investigated by microstructural detecting. Specimen-to-specimen fractographic analysis of tensile fractured surface was executed to summarize the relation between microporosity and tensile properties. The results indicated that the variability in tensile properties is quantitatively correlated to the areal fraction of porosity in the corresponding fracture surface, which could be expressed by a power law equation. All the results proved that the most highly localized cluster of micro-voids is most preferentially to be the origin of fracture, and then, fracture crack will preferentially propagate through the adjacent regions that with large porosity.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1033-1034)
• Pages: 824-828
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1033-1034.824
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: X. Sun, Zhan Yi Cao*, Hai Feng Liu, W. Jiang, L.P. Liu
• Keywords: AM50, High-Pressure Die-Cast Magnesium Alloys, Microporosity, Tensile Properties

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