Current Research and Future Prospect on Low-Alloyed High-Performance Wrought Magnesium Alloys

doi:10.11900/0412.1961.2021.00347

Acta Metall Sin

2021, Vol. 57

Issue (11): 1429-1437 DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2021.00347

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Current Research and Future Prospect on Low-Alloyed High-Performance Wrought Magnesium Alloys

WANG Huiyuan(

), XIA Nan, BU Ruyu, WANG Cheng, ZHA Min, YANG Zhizheng(

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Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China

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WANG Huiyuan, XIA Nan, BU Ruyu, WANG Cheng, ZHA Min, YANG Zhizheng. Current Research and Future Prospect on Low-Alloyed High-Performance Wrought Magnesium Alloys. Acta Metall Sin, 2021, 57(11): 1429-1437.

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Wrought magnesium alloys have a wide range of applications by controlling the microstructure and optimizing the deformation process to improve the mechanical properties. Low-alloyed magnesium alloys have great advantages in formability, corrosion resistance, and light weight. Moreover, low alloying and high performance have become important trends in the development of wrought magnesium alloys. This study reviews the research progress of low-alloyed, high-strength, high-plasticity, and superplastic wrought magnesium alloys regarding alloy composition design, strengthening and toughening mechanisms, and processing technology. From the perspective of improving production efficiency and expanding application scope, the development trend of low-alloyed wrought magnesium alloys is proposed.

Key words: wrought magnesium alloy low alloying high strength high plasticity superplasticity

Received: 20 August 2021

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TG146.2

Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(U19A2084)

About author: YANG Zhizheng, Tel: (0431)85095415, E-mail: yangzz@jlu.edu.cn
WANG Huiyuan, professor, Tel: (0431)85095415, E-mail: wanghuiyuan@jlu.edu.cn

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Table 1 High-strength low-alloyed wrought Mg alloys prepared by different processing methods^[6-13]

Fig.1 HRTEM image taken from the [ $10 1 ˉ 0$ ] direction of low content Mg-Al-Ca-Mn-Ag alloy (a) and corresponding SAED pattern (b) (The arrows in Figs.1a and b indicate the fine G.P. zone and the presence of the G.P. zone, respectively)

Fig.2 High-angle annular dark-field (HAADF)-scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images of as-received (a), cold rolled (b, c), annealing at 150^oC for 5 min (d), and 150^oC for 15 min (e, f) in Mg-2.57Ag alloy^[26]

Fig.3 Grain size distribution with <c + a> dislocations and deformation twins observed in the Mg-3Gd samples tensile deformed to failure (The <a> dislocations are not indicated in the figure for clarity. FG—fine grain, CG—coarse grain)^[40]

Fig.4 EBSD inverse pole figure (IPF) maps, grain size distribution, and corresponding (0002) pole figures of ZTWX1100 samples with basal-random heterogeneous (BRH) texture (a) and basal texture (b), and corresponding tensile engineering stress-strain curves (c) and strain hardening rate versus true strain curves (d) (RD, TD, and ND represent the rolling, transverse and normal directions, respectively; σ and ε represent true stress and true strain, respectively)^[43]

Table 2 Superplastic low-alloyed wrought magnesium alloys prepared by different processing methods^[45-52]

Fig.5 HAADF-STEM image (a) and corresponding EDS line-scan analysis (b) of the ZXTM1000 alloy before tension

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