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Combined nanoindentation and glancing angle X-ray diffraction (GAXD) methods were used to study the mechanical properties of near-surface microstructures (NSMs) of a hot-rolled 5xxx aluminum alloy. Nanoindentations with a sharp indenter were carried out with penetration depth ranging from 250 nm to 4500 nm at the near-surface regions as well as the bulk of the hot-rolled alloy. The primary indentation parameter presented here was the hardness, given that plastic strain obtained from GAXD experiment could be correlated with the hardness value. Analysis of nanoindentation hardness results proved that NSMs of this alloy on average were harder than the bulk due to the presence of different surface features discussed here. The GAXD experiments were performed between a minimum incident angle 0.025°, equivalent to 765 nm penetration depth, and a maximum angle 1°, equivalent to 3000 nm penetration depth. The strain-induced broadening in the diffraction peaks was calculated by the Williamson–Hall technique. Both indentation hardness and glancing angle diffraction results confirmed strain gradient as a function of depth in the NSMs of the alloy. Both techniques also showed that the thickness of the subsurface layer (i.e., several micrometers below the surface) of hot-rolled sample was approximately 2.44 μm at the tested areas. Additionally, reported results provided evidence for the ability to use glancing angle X-ray diffraction as a nondestructive tool for the measurement of subsurface layers' thickness as well as microstrain (non-uniform or plastic strain) as a function of depth.
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Financial support for this research was provided by Novelis Global Research and Technology Center. We gratefully acknowledge the IEN/IMAT Materials Characterization Facility at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Parvinian, S., Hoar, E., Tavakoli, D. et al. Through-Thickness Strain Gradient in a Hot-Rolled Al-Mg Alloy Obtained by Nanoindentation and Glancing Angle X-Ray Diffraction. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 28, 6897–6903 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-019-04400-9
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