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Commercial purity aluminum AA1050 was subjected to equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) that resulted in an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure with an as-received grain size of 0.35 µm. This UFG material was then annealed to obtain microstructures with grain sizes ranging from 0.47 to 20 µm. Specimens were compressed at quasi-static, intermediate, and dynamic strain rates at temperatures of 77 and 298 K. The mechanical properties were found to vary significantly with grain size, strain rate, and temperature. Yield stress was found to increase with decreasing grain size, decreasing temperature, and increasing strain rate. The work hardening rate was seen to increase with increasing grain size, decreasing temperature, and increasing strain rate. The influence of strain rate and temperature is most significant in the smallest grain size specimens. The rate of work hardening is also influenced by strain rate, temperature, and grain size with negative rates of work hardening observed at 298 K and quasi-static strain rates in the smallest grain sizes and increasing rates of work hardening with increasing loading rate and grain size. Work hardening behavior is correlated with the substructural evolution of these specimens.
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Sun, P.L., Cerreta, E.K., Gray, G.T. et al. The effect of grain size, strain rate, and temperature on the mechanical behavior of commercial purity aluminum. Metall Mater Trans A 37, 2983–2994 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-006-0180-1
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