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Strengthening of A5052 aluminum alloy by high-pressure sliding process

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A commercial purity of an Al-2mass% Mg alloy (A5052) was processed by severe plastic deformation using high-pressure sliding (HPS) for grain refinement. Mechanical properties and microstructures were examined after the HPS processing and subsequent annealing. Dislocation density decreased and grain growth occurred by the annealing. However, annealing at 150 °C led to an increase in the yield stress \({\sigma }_{y}\) to 420 MPa as well as the strain hardening coefficient (n = 0.49) defined in Ludwik’s equation in comparison with \(\sigma_{y} = 375 \;{\text{MPa}}\) and n = 0.25 in the as-HPS-processed state. It was shown that a Hall–Petch relation holds with a coefficient, k = 0.16 MPa m−1/2. The ratio of Vickers harness to tensile stress (\(Hv /{\sigma }_{{\text{TS}}}\)) was ~ 3, while the ratio to the yield stress (\(Hv/{\sigma }_{y}\)) was 3.3–4.8. Furthermore, plotting of several SPD methods including this study for tensile strength against equivalent strain resulted in a linear relationship and indicated that the HPS process yielded the highest strengthening. The strengthening mechanism was evaluated for the HPS-processed A5052 alloy so that the dominant contribution to the strengthening was from the grain boundary hardening due to significant grain refinement, which was up to 70% of the total strength.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude and thanks to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia for funding this research under Geran Universiti Penyelidikan, GUP-2022-014. This study was supported partly by Institute of Light Metals (ILM) Joint Usage/Research Grant, Kumamoto University & University of Toyama.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia

    Ahmad Muhammad Aziz, Intan Fadhlina Mohamed, Zenji Horita, Mohd Zaidi Omar, Zainuddin Sajuri & Ammar Abdulkareem Hashim Al-Ameri

  2. Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, 804-8550, Japan

    Zenji Horita

  3. Magnesium Research Center, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-8555, Japan

    Zenji Horita

  4. Synchrotron Light Application Center, Saga University, Saga, 840-8602, Japan

    Zenji Horita

  5. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600, Bangi, Malaysia

    Norinsan Kamil Othman

  6. Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Sharjah, 27272, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Junaidi Syarif

  7. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Benghazi, Benghazi, 16063, Libya

    Mohamed Abdelgawad Gebril

  8. Department of Material Science and Engineering, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

    Farhad Ostovan

  9. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama, 930-8555, Japan

    Seungwon Lee & Kenji Matsuda

  10. Technology Department, Nagano Forging Co., Ltd., Nagano, 381-0003, Japan

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Hardness color maps of surfaces and cross-sections after HPS processing for sliding distances of 5, 10 and 15 mm.

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Hardness color maps for HPS-processed samples after annealing at 150, 200, 250, 300 and 350 °C for 1 h.

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XRD profiles of aluminum peaks at (111) and (200).

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TEM micrographs a after HPS processing for x = 10 mm and b subsequent annealing at 150 °C.

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Aziz, A.M., Mohamed, I.F., Horita, Z. et al. Strengthening of A5052 aluminum alloy by high-pressure sliding process. J Mater Sci 59, 5754–5770 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-024-09334-9

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