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The effect of two-stage equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) on the microstructure, the texture, and the mechanical properties of an MA2-1hp magnesium alloy is analyzed. ECAP leads to the formation of a submicrocrystalline structure with an average grain size of 640 nm, which includes Mg17Al12 phase particles with an average grain size of 240 nm and a volume fracture of 5.5%. A scattered tilted basal texture forms after ECAP, and its experimental pole figures are used for calculating orientation distribution functions and determining the volume fractions of the main orientations and the Schmid factors for different deformation systems. An increased activation of basal slip is found after both the first and the second stages of ECAP. As a result of two-stage ECAP, the strength properties of the alloy that correspond to the minimum acceptable values achieved by direct compression are obtained. Ductility is 44 and 18% after the first stage of ECAP plus subsequent annealing and after the second stage, respectively, which is almost four and two times higher than the initial value. The resulting strength mechanical properties of the alloy after the first and the second ECAP stages are analyzed using the Hall-Petch relation.
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Original Russian Text © V.N. Serebryany, V.Yu. Perezhogin, G.I. Raab, V.I. Kopylov, N.Yu. Tabachkova, V.P. Sirotinkin, S.V. Dobatkin, 2015, published in Metally, 2015, No. 1, pp. 42–49.
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Serebryany, V.N., Perezhogin, V.Y., Raab, G.I. et al. Structure, texture, and mechanical properties of an MA2-1hp magnesium alloy after two-stage equal-channel angular pressing and intermediate annealing. Russ. Metall. 2015, 36–42 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036029515010103
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