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Ultrafine grain sizes were introduced into samples of an Al-3 pct Mg solid solution alloy and a cast Al-Mg-Li-Zr alloy using the process of equal-channel angular (ECA) pressing. The Al-3 pct Mg alloy exhibited a grain size of ∼0.23 µm after pressing at room temperature to a strain of ∼4, but there was significant grain growth when the pressed material was heated to temperatures above ∼450 K. The Al-Mg-Li-Zr alloy exhibited a grain size of ∼1.2 µm, and the microstructure was heterogeneous after pressing to a strain of ∼4 at 673 K and homogeneous after pressing to a strain of ∼8 at 673 K with an additional strain of ∼4 at 473 K. The heterogeneous material exhibited superplastic-like flow, but the homogeneous material exhibited high-strain-rate superplasticity with an elongation of >1000 pct at 623 K at a strain rate of 10−2 s−1. It is concluded that a homogeneous microstructure is required, and therefore a high pressing strain, in order to attain high-strain-rate superplasticity (HSR SP) in ultrafine-grained materials.
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This article is based on a presentation made in the symposium “Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Nanocrystalline Solids,” presented at the 1997 Fall TMS Meeting and Materials Week, September 14–18, 1997, in Indianapolis, Indiana, under the auspices of the Mechanical Metallurgy (SMD), Powder Materials (MDMD), and Chemistry and Physics of Materials (EMPMD/SMD) Committees.
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Berbon, P.B., Langdon, T.G., Tsenev, N.K. et al. Fabrication of bulk ultrafine-grained materials through intense plastic straining. Metall Mater Trans A 29, 2237–2243 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-998-0101-6
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