Processing maps and microstructural evolution of Al-Cu-Li alloy during hot deformation
来源期刊:Rare Metals2019年第12期
论文作者:Sheng-Li Yang Jian Shen Yong-An Zhang Zhi-Hui Li Xi-Wu Li Shu-Hui Huang Bai-Qing Xiong
文章页码:1136 - 1143
摘 要:The hot deformation behavior of Al-Cu-Li alloy was investigated by hot compression tests in the temperature range of 340-500℃ with strain rate of 0.001-10.000 s-1.Based on the dynamic materials model(DMM),processing maps of the test alloy were developed for optimizing hot processing parameters.The optimum parameters of hot deformation for Al-Cu-Li alloy are at temperature of 400-430℃and strain rate of about 0.100 s-1,with efficiency of power dissipation of around 30%.The microstructural manifestation of the alloy deformed in instability domains is flow localization,and dynamic softening first occurs in flow localizations structure.In stable domains,dynamic recovery(DRV) and dynamic recrystallization(DRX) are the main microstructural evolution mechanism.DRX is gradually strengthened with the increase in deformation temperature and the decrease in strain rate.During hot deformation,the DRX mechanism of Al-Cu-Li alloy is dominated by continuous DRX(CDRX).A DRX model of Al-Cu-Li alloy is proposed based on the microstructural evolution process of the test alloy.
稀有金属(英文版) 2019,38(12),1136-1143
Sheng-Li Yang Jian Shen Yong-An Zhang Zhi-Hui Li Xi-Wu Li Shu-Hui Huang Bai-Qing Xiong
State Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals and Processes General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals
作者简介:*Jian Shen e-mail:shenjgrinm@126.com;
收稿日期:17 January 2016
基金:financially supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China (No.2012CB619504);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51274046);
Sheng-Li Yang Jian Shen Yong-An Zhang Zhi-Hui Li Xi-Wu Li Shu-Hui Huang Bai-Qing Xiong
State Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals and Processes General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals
Abstract:
The hot deformation behavior of Al-Cu-Li alloy was investigated by hot compression tests in the temperature range of 340-500℃ with strain rate of 0.001-10.000 s-1.Based on the dynamic materials model(DMM),processing maps of the test alloy were developed for optimizing hot processing parameters.The optimum parameters of hot deformation for Al-Cu-Li alloy are at temperature of 400-430℃and strain rate of about 0.100 s-1,with efficiency of power dissipation of around 30%.The microstructural manifestation of the alloy deformed in instability domains is flow localization,and dynamic softening first occurs in flow localizations structure.In stable domains,dynamic recovery(DRV) and dynamic recrystallization(DRX) are the main microstructural evolution mechanism.DRX is gradually strengthened with the increase in deformation temperature and the decrease in strain rate.During hot deformation,the DRX mechanism of Al-Cu-Li alloy is dominated by continuous DRX(CDRX).A DRX model of Al-Cu-Li alloy is proposed based on the microstructural evolution process of the test alloy.
Keyword:
Al-Cu-Li alloy; Processing map; Dynamic recovery and dynamic recrystallization; Microstructural evolution;
Received: 17 January 2016
1 Introduction
Al-Cu-Li alloys are being extensively used for aerospace structures due to their high stiffness to density ratio and large elastic modulus compared with conventional 2xxx and 7xxx series alloys
In recent years,the processing map based on dynamic materials model (DMM) is considered to be an important mode]for optimizing the hot working of metals or alloys
subgrains with their misorientation increasing and eventually convert to a DRX structure prior to the formation of adiabatic shear bands.From above discussion,it can be known that DRV and DRX play an important role in the microstructural evolution process of stable domains and instability domains in perse mletallic materials.Generally,DRX mechanism of aluminum alloy mainly has two kinds of discontinuous DRX (DDRX) and CDRX
In this work,the effect of strain on processing map of an Al-Cu-Li alloy was investigated based on isothermal compression tests.Optimized hot deformation parameters were established by processing map.Microstructural evolution mechanism of Al-Cu-Li alloy deformed in stable domain and instability domain was discussed.A DRX model was proposed based on the microstructural evolution processing during hot deformation by EBSD and transmission electron microscope (TEM)analysis.The optimal hot processing parameters will provide the important guideline for the optimization of deformation techniques and the improvement of microstructure.
2 Experimental
The chemical composition of the test alloy in this work was2.50Cu,1.58Li,0.30Mn,0.12Zr,0.06 Mg,0.01 Zn,0.05Ti and balance Al (wt%).The cast ingot was homogenized at460℃for 20 h followed by 525℃for 24 h and then cooled down to room temperature in water.Cylindrical specimens with 10 mm in diameter and 15 mm in height were machined for compression tests.The isothermal compression tests were conducted on a Gleeble-1500thermosimulation machine in the temperature range of340-500℃at intervals of 40℃and under five different strain rates (0.001,0.010.0.100,1.000 and 10.000 s-1).Graphite sheet was used between the specimens for reducing the deformed friction.The specimens were heated with a rate 5℃·s-1 and held for 3 min at the deformation temperatures in order to establish a uniform temperature prior to deformation.The height reduction of the specimens was 60%by the end of the compression tests.The speeimens were cooled down by water immediately after deformation,so as to retain the microstructure pattern at elevated temperature.The specimens were axially sectioned and mechanically polished.EBSD (JEOL,JSM-7001F scanning electron microscope) investigation was carried out after electrochemically polished using a solution containing 10 ml HClO4 and 90 ml methanol.TEM films were prepared by the conventional method:0.5-mmthick foils were cut from the deformed specimens.Then,the thick foils were ground into 0.05 mm and disks with3 mm in diameter were punched out from these foils and subsequently two-jet thinned in a solution of 75 m1 HNO3and 225 mll methanol-cooled to-30℃.TEM observations were conducted on Tecnai G20.
According to the principles of the DMM
where m is strain rate sensitivity,calculated from m=
Based on the extremum principles of irreversible thermodynamics,an instability criterion was proposed to determine the onset of flow instability,which was derived by
The instability map can be plotted by different values ofξ(
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Processing map
It has been demonstrated that the processing map is very useful for optimizing hot workability and controlling microstructure in the material.Figure 1 shows the effects of strain on the processing maps of Al-Cu-Li alloy gencrated in the temperature range of 340-500℃,strain rate range of 0.001-10.000 s-1 and the strains of 0.3,0.5,0.7and 0.9.In the processing maps,the contours represent the efficiency of power dissipation and the number of the contour indicates the dimension of the efficiency of power dissipation (η).Shadow domains represented instable domains (ξ(
From Fig.1,it can be easily found that instable domain increases with the increase in strain.As shown in Fig.la,the processing map exhibits two instable domains at a strain of 0.3.The instable Domain I occurs at temperature of lower than 380℃and strain rates from 0.002 to 0.715.Instable DomainⅡlocates at temperature of 380-440℃and high strain rates.The effect of strain on the instable Domain I is slight with strain increasing from 0.3 to0.5.However,the instable DomainⅡmigrates to high temperature with the increase in strain (Fig.1b).As shown in Fig.1c,instability DomainⅡemerges at low temperature and high strain rate.As a result,the instable DomainsⅠandⅡmerge into a big zone at the strain of 0.7.The big instable domain migrates to high temperature and a wider range of strain rate at the strain of 0.9 (Fig.1d).
According to Fig.1,it can be observed that there are some similarities among different strains:The efficiency of power dissipation increases with strain rates decreasing.The minimum and maximum values of efficiency of power dissipation are obtained at low temperature with high strain rate (at temperature of 340℃with strain rate of10.000 s-1) and at high temperature with low strain rate (at temperature of 500℃with strain rate of 0.001 s-1),respectively.From Fig.1d.it can be found that there are four peak efficiency domains at strain of 0.9.The first domain is the temperature range of 340-370℃and strain rate range of 0.001-0.002 s-1.The maximum efficiency of power dissipation in this domain is 32%.But.this domain is inappropriate for the alloy hot processing because the domain is so narrow and close to the instable domain.The second domain is the temperature range of 400-440℃and strain rate range of 0.001-0.056 s-1 corresponding to a peak efficiency of power dissipation of 32%.The third domain is the temperature range of 440-470℃and strain rate range of 0.001-0.562 s-1 with a peak efficiency of power dissipation of 30%.The fourth domain is the temperature range of 470-500℃and strain rate range of0.001-0.316 s-1.The efficiency of power dissipation of this domain increases from 26%to 36%.The variation of the peak efficiency of power dissipation indicates that the hot workability of Al-Cu-Li alloy will be improved with the increase in temperature and decrease in strain rate.Generally,the better workability of deformable material,the higher efficiency of powwer dissipation.Nevertheless,the highest efficiency of power dissipation does not mean better workability
3.2 Microstructural evolution
In order to investigate microstructural evolution mechanism and verify the reliability of the hot deformation parameters predicted by processing map,the microstructures of the test alloy deformed under the specific process parameters in instable domains and stable domains were analyzed.
Figure 2 shows EBSD maps at different deformation conditions of instable domains in Fig.1d.Figure 2a,b/c.d/e,f/g,h corresponds to A/B/C/D letters labeled in Fig.1d.Figure 2 a,c,e,g is the inverse pole figure (IPF)maps,and Fig.2 b,d,f,h is the image quality (IQ) maps.
Fig.1 Processing maps of Al-Cu-Li aluminum alloy under different strains:a 0.3,b 0.5,c 0.7 and d 0.9
Fig.2 EBSD maps (a,c,e,g IPF and b,d,f,h IQ maps) of test alloy deformed at different deformation conditions in instable domains:a,b 340℃10.000 s-1;c,d 340℃,0.100 s-1;e,f 380℃,0.100 s-1;g,h 420℃,1.000 s-1
Microstruetural evolution in the instable domains is corresponding to flow localizations,dynamic strain aging,mechanical twinning or kinking and flow rotation
Figure 3 shows EBSD maps at different deformation conditions of stable domains in Fig.1d.Figure 3a,b/c,d/e,f/g,h corresponds to E/F/G/H letters labeled in Fig.1d.Figure 3 a,c,e,g is IPF maps,and Fig.3b,d,f,h is IQ maps.
Figure 3 shows that the morphology of the deformed grains in stable domains is more homogeneous than those of the instable domain (Fig.2).The efficiency of power dissipation is conforming to microstructural evolution mechanism.Reddy et al.
3.3 DRX model of Al-Cu-Li alloy
During hot deformation,DRV and DRX of Al-Cu-Li alloy are closely related to the distribution of original grain boundaries and second-phase particles
Fig.3 EBSD maps (a,c,e,g IPF and b,d,f,h IQ maps) of test alloy deformed at different deformation conditions in instable domains:a,b 420℃,0.100 s-1;c,d 420℃,0.001 s-1;e,f 500℃,0.100 s-1;g,h 500℃,0.001 s-1
As seen from Fig.4a,there are no obvious DRX grains when the strain is 0.105.The grain boundaries are smooth.The frequency of LAB is only 19.6%.The frequency of LAB sharply increases to 66.5%when the strain increases to 0.405.LAB subgrain structure occurs preferentially adjacent to the original high angle grain boundaries,as shown in Fig.4b.A few of the original grain boundaries are bulged,as indicated by the red arrow in Fig.4b.Some original grain boundary contacts with subgrain boundary toform some trigeminal node,as indicated by the white dashed circle in Fig.4b.The frequency of LAB further increases to 73.6%when the strain increases to 0.693,as shown in Fig.4c.Some recrystallized grains with small size form in the trigeminal node,as indicated by the white dashed circle in Fig.4c.As the strain continues increasing,more and more subgrains gradually could be investigated in the internal deformation of grain with the strain increasing.A small amount of fine DRX grains form in the vicinity of the original grain boundaries and some coarse second-phase particles.Meanwhile,the frequency of LAB decreases from 73.6%to 63.1%when the strain increases from 0.693 to 1.003,as shown in Fig.4d.It is worth noting that the grain gradually changes to lamellar microstructure with the increase in strain,as shown in Fig.4d,e.The lamellar microstructure boundaries are aligned parallel to the compression plane,together with intersecting boundaries which are mainly of LAB.And it tends to reduce the energy by localized boundary migration and finally form DRX grains,as indicated by white dashed line in Fig.4d,e.The frequency of LAB decreases to 55.1%when the strain increases to 1.332.
Fig.4 Effects of strain on grain boundary distribution and frequency of misorientation of test alloy (deformation temperature of 500℃,strain rate of 0.001 s-1):aε=0.105,bε=0.405,cε=0.693,dε=1.003 and eε=1.332 (red lines:2°-5°,green lines:5°-15°,blue lines:above 15°misorientation)
At the initial stage of deformation,a large number of dislocations tangled with each other are induced.Out-oforder dislocation gradually transforms into dislocation nets by polygonizing (annihilation and rearrangement of dislocations),then forming subgrain structure,as shown in Fig.5a,b,causing the increase in LAB frequency (Fig.4a,b,c).The deformed grains gradually turn into lamellar structure with the increase in strain.It is thought that the energy is lowered by localized boundary migration.As shown in Fig.5c,the lamellar microstructure tends to collapse due to the surface tension at the trigeminal node
According to the microstructural evolution process of the test alloy during hot deformation (Figs.4,5),a DRX model of Al-Cu-Li alloy is proposed to describe the microstructural evolution of the test alloy,which is based on the model proposed by Humphreys and Hatherly
1.Several initial grains are depicted in Fig.6a.Duringthe deformation process,a large number of straininduced dislocation are rearranged to form subgrain in the initial grain,as shown in Fig.6b.At the same time,the initial grains gradually transform into lamellar structure,as shown in Fig.6c.
2.The boundary of lamellar structure collapses due tothe surface tension at the node point such as A in Fig.6c,where the boundaries perpendicular to the compression direction are pulled by the boundaries non-perpendicular to the compression direction.The critical condition for collapse of the boundaries is when A1 and A2 nodes touch.This depends on the length of different direction boundaries and its relative boundary energies (Reference
Fig.5 TEM images of Al-Cu-Li alloy deformed at different strains (deformation temperature of 500℃,strain rate of 0.001 s-1):aε=0.405.bε=0.693,cε=1.003 and dε=1.332
Fig.6 DRX model graphs proposed for describing microstructural evolution during deformation:a initial grain structure,b moderate deformation leading to formation of subgrain structure (frequency of LAB increasing),c large deformation leading to formation of lamellar microstructure,d collapse of lamellar boundaries,e spheroidization beginning by Y-junction migration and f DRX grains formed by further spheroidization and growth
3.During hot deformation process,as shown in Fig.6d,e,two new nodes
As seen from the microstructural evolution (Fig.4) and the proposed DRX model (Fig.6),DRX mechanism of AlCu-Li alloy is mainly CDRX during hot deformation.
4 Conclusion
The hot deformation behavior of Al-Cu-Li alloy was conducted in temperature range of 340-500℃and strain rate range of 0.001-10.000 s-1.According to the analysis of processing map and micros tructural evolution mechanism,optimal hot processing conditions of Al-Cu-Li alloy are the temperature range of 400-430℃and strain rate of about 0.100 s-1 for practical manufacturing,with efficiency of power dissipation of around 30%.the deformation mechanism of Al-Cu-Li alloy in the instable domains is flow localizations.Dynamic softening first occurs in flow localizations structure,inducing DRV and DRX non-uniform distribution in the deformed microstructure and making the workability of the alloy worse in turn.In stable domains,DRV and DRX exist simultaneously,and DRX gradually becomes the dominant deformation mechanism with the increase in deformation temperature and decrease in strain rates.DRX mechanism of Al-Cu-Li alloy is mainly CDRX during hot deformation.A DRX model of Al-Cu-Li alloy is proposed based on the microstructural evolution process of the test alloy.In the process of hot deformation,the DRX mechanism of AlCu-Li alloy is dominated by CDRX.
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