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A submicrometer-grained structure was introduced in a commercial 5083 Al alloy by imposing an effective strain of ∼8 through equal channel angular pressing. In order to examine the low-temperature superplastic behavior, the as-equal channel angular pressed (as-ECAP) samples were tensile tested in the strain rate range of 10−5 to 10−2 s−1 at temperatures of 498 to 548 K corresponding to 0.58 to 0.65 T m, where T m is the incipient melting point. The mechanical data of the alloy at 498 and 548 K exhibited a sigmoidal behavior in a double logarithmic plot of the maximum true stress vs true strain rate. The strain rate sensitivity was 0.1 to 0.2 in the low- and high-strain rate regions and 0.4 in the intermediate-strain rate region, indicating the potential for superplasticity. At 523 K, instead of the sigmoidal behavior, a strain rate sensitivity of 0.4 was maintained to low strain rates. A maximum elongation of 315 pct was obtained at 548 K and 5×10−4 s−1. The activation energy for deformation in the intermediate-strain rate region was estimated as 63 kJ/mol. Low-temperature superplasticity of the ultrafine grained 5083 Al alloy was attributed to grain boundary sliding that is rate-controlled by grain boundary diffusion, with a low activation energy associated with nonequilibrium grain boundaries. Cavity stringers parallel to the tensile axis were developed during deformation, and the failure occurred in a quasi-brittle manner with moderately diffusive necking.
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Park, KT., Hwang, DY., Chang, SY. et al. Low-temperature superplastic behavior of a submicrometer-grained 5083 Al alloy fabricated by severe plastic deformation. Metall Mater Trans A 33, 2859–2867 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-002-0271-6
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