The Effect of Process Route on the Mechanical Properties and Microstructure Aluminum Al-Si-Cu-Mg-Mn Alloys

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Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) is an effective fabrication process to modify ultrafine grain size. It is believed that the smaller grain size could improve the mechanical properties. In the present work, the solution treatment applied to Al-Si-Cu-Mg-Mn alloy. Furthermore, two models of ECAP have been done through one-to-three pass at room temperature. The microstructures were observed by optical microscope (OM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The micro-hardness of longitudinal plane was analyzed by vickers hardness test. The strength of ECAP materials at room temperature was obtained by using tensile test. The results show that the ECAP process has improved mechanical properties of alloys, which were the hardness and ultimate tensile strength tend to increase since single pass stage.

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