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Effect of Al and Gd Solutes on the Strain Rate Sensitivity of Magnesium Alloys

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Pure magnesium and two binary alloys, Mg-1 wt pct Al and Mg-1.4 wt pct Gd, have been prepared with comparable grain sizes and textures. The alloys have been tensile tested at various strain rates and temperatures to examine the strain rate sensitivity (SRS). It has been found that Mg and Mg-Al show increasing SRS with increasing deformation temperatures. The Mg-Gd alloy showed decreasing SRS with increasing deformation temperatures and exhibited a negative SRS at 200 °C and 250 °C. Above these temperatures, the SRS returned to a positive value. The elongation to fracture was not effected by the SRS, and it has been concluded that for the alloys and conditions examined, the influences of mechanical twinning and dynamic recrystallization dominate the elongation behavior, rather than the SRS.

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The work described in this article was funded by the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals. The authors are grateful for the scientific and technical input and support from the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility (AMMRF) node at the University of Sydney. The authors thank Dr. Andrew Sullivan, Mahendra Ramajayam, and John Vella for their assistance with the laboratory work.

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  1. Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, 3217

    N. Stanford (Senior Researcher) & M. R. Barnett

  2. Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados de Materiales (IMDEA-Materiales), E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    I. Sabirov (Senior Researcher)

  3. Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Sydney, Australia

    G. Sha (Senior Researcher), A. La Fontaine (Atom Probe Engineer) & S. P. Ringer (Director of Electron Microscopy Unit)

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Stanford, N., Sabirov, I., Sha, G. et al. Effect of Al and Gd Solutes on the Strain Rate Sensitivity of Magnesium Alloys. Metall Mater Trans A 41, 734–743 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-009-0107-8

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