scholarly journals Alloying and Processing Effects on the Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Degradation Behavior of Extruded Magnesium Alloys Containing Calcium, Cerium, or Silver

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bohlen ◽  
Sebastian Meyer ◽  
Björn Wiese ◽  
Bérengère J. C. Luthringer-Feyerabend ◽  
Regine Willumeit-Römer ◽  
...  

Magnesium alloys attract attention as degradable implant materials due to their adjustable corrosion properties and biocompatibility. In the last few decades, especially wrought magnesium alloys with enhanced mechanical properties have been developed, with the main aim of increasing ductility and formability. Alloying and processing studies allowed demonstrating the relationship between the processing and the microstructure development for many new magnesium alloys. Based on this experience, magnesium alloy compositions need adjustment to elements improving mechanical properties while being suitable for biomaterial applications. In this work, magnesium alloys from two Mg-Zn series with Ce (ZE) or Ca (ZX) as additional elements and a series of alloys with Ag and Ca (QX) as alloying elements are suggested. The microstructure development was studied after the extrusion of round bars with varied processing parameters and was related to the mechanical properties and the degradation behavior of the alloys. Grain refinement and texture weakening mechanisms could be improved based on the alloy composition for enhancing the mechanical properties. Degradation rates largely depended on the nature of second phase particles rather than on the grain size, but remained suitable for biological applications. Furthermore, all alloy compositions exhibited promising cytocompatibility.

2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 643-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Qi Ma ◽  
Fu Sheng Pan ◽  
Ru Lin Zuo

The effects of rare earth addtition of Er on the microstructures and mechanical properties of Mg-9Zn-Zr magnesium alloys were examined. The results showed that the addition of Er resulted in the formation of two types of thermally stable Er-bearing compounds with distinct Zn/Er ratio. The volume fraction of the second-phase particles increased with the increase of Er addition. 2% Er could refine the as-cast microstructure effectively. The yield strength generally increased and the elongation decreased gradually. 0.5% Er-bearing alloy had optimum combined mechanical properties, with the yield strength, tensile strength and elongation being 313MPa, 366MPa and 22%, respectively. Furthermore, addition of Er brought about homogenous deformation behaviour and recrystallization behaviour to the alloy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 535-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Shaterani ◽  
A. Zarei-Hanzaki ◽  
S.M. Fatemi-Varzaneh ◽  
S.B. Hassas-Irani

2012 ◽  
Vol 736 ◽  
pp. 307-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murugavel Suresh ◽  
Satyam Suwas

Mg alloys show limited room temperature formability compared to its lightweight counterpart aluminium alloys, which is a main obstacle in using this metal for most of the structural applications. However, it is known that grain refinement and texture control are the two possibilities for the improvement of formability of magnesium alloys. Amongst the approaches attempted for the texture weakening, additions through of rare-earth (RE) elements have been found most effective. The relationship between the texture and ductility is well established. In this paper, the effect of rare earth addition on texture weakening has been summarized for various magnesium alloys under the two most common modes of deformation methods.


Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Wang ◽  
Zhen Li ◽  
Shujie Pang ◽  
Xiaona Li ◽  
Chuang Dong ◽  
...  

High-performance conventional engineering materials (including Al alloys, Mg alloys, Cu alloys, stainless steels, Ni superalloys, etc.) and newly-developed high entropy alloys are all compositionally-complex alloys (CCAs). In these CCA systems, the second-phase particles are generally precipitated in their solid-solution matrix, in which the precipitates are diverse and can result in different strengthening effects. The present work aims at generalizing the precipitation behavior and precipitation strengthening in CCAs comprehensively. First of all, the morphology evolution of second-phase particles and precipitation strengthening mechanisms are introduced. Then, the precipitation behaviors in diverse CCA systems are illustrated, especially the coherent precipitation. The relationship between the particle morphology and strengthening effectiveness is discussed. It is addressed that the challenge in the future is to design the stable coherent microstructure in different solid-solution matrices, which will be the most effective approach for the enhancement of alloy strength.


2013 ◽  
Vol 401-403 ◽  
pp. 610-613
Author(s):  
Jian Ming Wang ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Qian He Ma

The pipeline steel as an application in pipeline construction must have good comprehensive mechanical properties due to the harsh environment of the pipeline engineering. So this experiment takes the X80 pipeline steel as the research object, the thermal stability second phase particles which would not be dissolved or aggregated at high temperature will be expected by means of adding nanomagnesium oxide into the steel with the method of carrier dispersion addition. The effect of nanometer magnesium oxide addition on the cast microstructure of X80 pipeline steel was analysed. The results show that the cast microstructure is consist of the ferrite and a small amount bainite. And the bainite is distributed at the boundary of the ferrite grains. When adding 0.02 wt% nanometer magnesium oxides, the number of bainite increases significantly in the cast microstructure, which is mostly distributed at the boundary of the ferrite grains.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 100956
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Yafei Wang ◽  
Yunbiao Duan ◽  
Kaijun Wang ◽  
Yutian Wang ◽  
...  

Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jintao Wang ◽  
Shouping Liu ◽  
Xiaoyu Han

In this paper, a method of using the second phase to control the grain growth in Fe–Al–Cr alloys was proposed, in order to obtain better mechanical properties. In Fe–Al–Cr alloys, austenitic transformation occurs by adding austenitizing elements, leading to the formation of the second phase and segregation at the grain boundaries, which hinders grain growth. FeCr(σ) phase was obtained in the Fe–Al–Cr alloys, which had grains of several microns and was coherent and coplanar with the matrix (Fe2AlCr). The nucleation of σ phase in Fe–Al–Cr alloy was controlled by the ratio of nickel to chromium. When the Ni/Cr (eq) ratio of alloys was more than 0.19, σ phase could nucleate in Fe–Al–Cr alloy. The relationship between austenitizing and nucleation of FeCr(σ) phase was given by thermodynamic calculation.


2008 ◽  
Vol 368-372 ◽  
pp. 744-747
Author(s):  
Xiao Ping Liang ◽  
Shao Bo Xin ◽  
Xiao Hui Wang ◽  
Zheng Fang Yang

The wear properties of ADZ (alumina dispersed in Y-TZP) and MDZ (mullite dispersed in Y-TZP) were investigated by using a ring-on-block tribometer. The results showed that for Y-TZP ceramic, the addition of alumina phase (with 10-20% in mass fraction) leads to an improved wear resistance. With the increase of the normal load, the wear rates of ADZ ceramics increase. Under low and medium normal load (100N and 300N), the wear resistance is controlled by the hardness of ceramics, and under high normal load (500N) the fracture toughness is obviously contributed to the wear resistance of the ceramics. For MDZ ceramic, the wear resistance of 15MDZ (15wt% mullite dispersed in Y-TZP) is better than that of 20 MDZ (20wt% mullite) under the normal load from 100 N to 500 N. The mechanical properties of 15MDZ are worse than that of Y-TZP ceramic, but the wear resistance is enhanced due to the action of “needle roller bearing” of the fractured rod-like mullite particles.


2011 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Y.L. Du ◽  
H.W. Xu ◽  
J.L. Cheng ◽  
Guang Chen

In this work, the Cu46Zr42-xAl7Y5Nbx alloys with different Nb contents were prepared by water-cooled copper mold casting. The effects of Nb addition on the structural and mechanical properties were studied. It was found that the structure remains in amorphous state at low Nb concentration (x =1, 2). However, some crystalline phases appear in the high Nb content alloy (x > 2), showing a composite structure, that is, the second phase particles dispersed in an amorphous matrix. The effects of Nb on the glass-forming ability of Cu46Zr42Al7Y5 were studied by differential scanning calorimetric (DSC). The compressive mechanical properties of Cu46Zr42-xAl7Y5Nbx alloys were studied. It was found that the compressive strength can be improved by introducing Nb. However, the ductile of the alloys were not improved by the introduction of Nb.


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