The Effect of Severe Plastic Deformation Processing on Creep Properties of Metallic Materials

Abstract:

Processing by severe plastic deformation (SPD) may be defined as such metals forming procedure in which a very high strain is imposed on a bulk material. This paper investigates the effect of different equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) routes and number of ECAP passes on resulting microstructure, mechanical properties and creep behaviour of selected materials. The distinction between various ECAP routes (A, B and C) and the difference in number of ECAP passes applied may lead to variations both in the macroscopic distortions of the individual grains and in the capability to develop a reasonably homogeneous and equiaxed ultrafine-grained microstructure. Experimental materials were processed by ECAP at room temperature using a die with an internal angle of 90° between the two parts of the channel. The ECAP pressing was performed by different routes up to 12 ECAP passes. Tensile creep tests were conducted at temperatures 473 - 673 K and at different applied stresses on ECAP materials and, for comparison purposes, on their unpressed states. Microstructure of samples was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) unit. In conclusion, the ECAP processing route and number of applied ECAP passes could play an important role in creep behaviour and their effect may be different for particular materials. The highest differences in processing routes were revealed for materials especially at lower number of ECAP passes. However, a little apparent dependence of the creep properties was observed during subsequent pressing.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 651-653)
• Pages: 639-644
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.651-653.639
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Jiří Dvořák*, Petr Král, Vaclav Sklenička, Milan Svoboda, Marie Kvapilová
• Keywords: Creep, ECAP, ECAP Route, UFG Materials

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