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Variation of the uniaxial tensile behavior of ultrafine-grained pure aluminum after cyclic pre-deformation

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To explore the influence of cyclic pre-deformation on the mechanical behavior of ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials with a high stacking fault energy (SFE), UFG Al processed by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) was selected as a target material and its tensile behavior at different pre-cyclic levels D (D = Ni / Nf, where Ni and Nf are the applied cycles and fatigue life at a constant stress amplitude of 50 MPa, respectively) along with the corresponding microstructures and deformation features were systematically studied. The cyclic pre-deformation treatment on the ECAPed UFG Al led to a decrease in flow stress, and a stress quasi-plateau stage was observed after yielding for all of the different-state UFG Al samples. The yield strength σYS, ultimate tensile strength σUTS, and uniform strain ɛ exhibited a strong dependence on D when D ≤ 20%; however, when D was in the range from 20% to 50%, no obvious change in mechanical properties was observed. The micro-mechanism for the effect of cyclic pre-deformation on the tensile properties of the ECAPed UFG Al was revealed and compared with that of ECAPed UFG Cu through the observations of deformation features and microstructures.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51571058, 51271054 and 51231002) and the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials of Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, China (No. ATM20170001).

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    Ying Yan, Guo-qiang Zhang, Dong Han & Xiao-wu Li

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Yan, Y., Chen, Lj., Zhang, Gq. et al. Variation of the uniaxial tensile behavior of ultrafine-grained pure aluminum after cyclic pre-deformation. Int J Miner Metall Mater 25, 663–671 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-018-1613-8

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