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High Strength and Ductility of Ultrathin Laminate Foils Using Accumulative Roll Bonding and Asymmetric Rolling

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As product miniaturization is becoming widely popular, many microparts are being produced by microforming of sheets/foils, whose strength needs to be able to maintain structural stability of the micro-components. In addition, their strength and ductility of foils generally reduce with a reduction in the thickness due to the size effect. In this paper, we report the fabrication of an aluminum laminate foil using a combined process of accumulative roll bonding (ARB) and asymmetric rolling (AR). It was found that this improves both strength and ductility. TEM results show that the laminate structures produced by ARB develop an inhomogeneous microstructure with nanoscale grains and abnormal coarsening in some grains during AR processing. Both these effects result in an improved ductility and strength. Using these rolled products, micro-cups of very small wall thickness/cup diameter ratio (1/200) have been successfully fabricated by micro-deep drawing without the need for annealing.

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Acknowledgments

The lead author gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship Grant and URC small grant at the University of Wollongong, and from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant 51105071. SH is grateful to Directorate General for Higher Education (DIKTI) of the Republic of Indonesia for supporting the PhD scholarship.

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  1. School of Mechanical, Materials & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia

    Hailiang Yu, Kiet Tieu, Syamsul Hadi, Cheng Lu & Ajit Godbole

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shenyang University, Shenyang, 110044, P.R. China

    Hailiang Yu

  3. Electron Microscope Unit, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Charlie Kong

  4. Mechanical Engineering Department, State Polytechnic of Malang, P.O. Box 04, Malang, 65100, East Java, Indonesia

    Syamsul Hadi

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Yu, H., Tieu, K., Hadi, S. et al. High Strength and Ductility of Ultrathin Laminate Foils Using Accumulative Roll Bonding and Asymmetric Rolling. Metall Mater Trans A 46, 869–879 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-014-2640-3

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