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AZ31 magnesium alloy sheets were processed by normal rolling (NR), one-pass equal channel angular rolling (1P-ECAR), and cross equal channel angular rolling (C-ECAR) at 400 °C on a die with 105 ° channel angle. The microstructure, texture, and tensile properties of sheets were measured. The results show that ECAR processing can weaken the basal plane texture, thus obviously improve the mechanical properties. The yield ratio σs/σb decreases and strain hardening exponent n increases along rolling direction (RD) during ECAR, which means that the uniform plastic formability is enhanced. After C-ECAR, the mechanical properties along both the RD and transverse direction (TD) are improved. Different twinning types, fine \( \left\{ {10\overline{1} 1} \right\} \) contraction twinning in the NRed sheets and coarse \( \left\{ {10\overline{1} 2} \right\} \) extension twinning in the ECARed sheets, were observed. The easier activation of \( \left\{ {10\overline{1} 2} \right\} \) twinning and basal 〈a〉 slip leads to the lower yield strength of the ECARed sheets. Dynamic recrystallization (DRX) during the rolling process has great effect on the microstructure of the as-deformed and annealed sheets. The annealed C-ECARed sheets have significant finer and homogenous grains than the annealed NRed sheets, which is attributed to the rarely DRX process during ECAR. The average grain sizes of the annealed C-ECARed samples and NRed samples are 14 and 24 μm, respectively.
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The research described in this paper was supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China (NCET-06-0701), the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20070532087) and the Natural Science Foundation Project of China (50844034).
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Zhu, SQ., Yan, HG., Xia, WJ. et al. Influence of different deformation processing on the AZ31 magnesium alloy sheets. J Mater Sci 44, 3800–3806 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-009-3513-9
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