The Cyclic Extrusion Behavior of Severe Plastic Deformation (CEC) of Aluminum Alloy 6061

Abstract:

Cyclic extrusion compression (CEC) is one of the well-known techniques in metal forming processes under the severe plastic deformation process (SPD) in which an ultra-large plastic strain is imposed on a bulk material in order to make ultra-fine grained (UFG) metals, alloys and composites. In this work, the mechanical properties of the aluminum alloy (6061) before and after CEC process were examined. A special CEC die was design and fabricated for the present work which achieved an effective plastic strain of about 0.62 after each separate cycle of CEC. The microstructure was effectively refined with increasing the number of CEC cycles as the grain size was reduced from ≈250μm to ≈30 μm after 6 cycles of CEC. The mechanical properties were tremendously increased in comparison with those of as cast and annealed condition. The micro-hardness increased from 25 Hv to 56 Hv, while the yield and the ultimate tensile strengths increased from 60 MPa to 198 MPa and 85 MPa to 204 MPa respectively, the ductility increased from 2.97% to 4.6% with the number of CEC cycles increasing up to six cycles.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 835)
• Pages: 186-192
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.835.186
• Online since: March 2020
• Authors: Gehan A. Abd El Raouf*, N. El Mahallawy, M.K. Shoukry
• Keywords: Aluminum 6061 Alloy, Cyclic Extrusion Compression (CEC), Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD)

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