Influence of Thermo-Electropulsing Rolling Process on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Strip

Abstract:

Thermo-electropulsing rolling (TER) process, which combined the electropulsing treatment with the conventional warm rolling process (WR), was applied to manufacture AZ31 magnesium alloy strips in the current study. Influences of TER process and WR process on microstructure and mechanical properties of AZ31 Mg alloy were studied. TER process was found to induce and accelerate the dynamic recrystallization (DRX) behavior of the samples at a relatively low temperature within a short time. Besides, TER process could obtain samples with better mechanical properties than that of WR process.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 744)
• Pages: 375-378
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.744.375
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Shi Ding Sun, Guo Yi Tang
• Keywords: Dynamic Recrystallization (DRX), Electropulsing, Magnesium Alloy, Mechanical Property

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