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Influence of Strain Path Change on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Duplex Mg–Li Alloy

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The microstructures, texture evolution, and mechanical properties of unidirectionally-rolled and cross-rolled Mg–9Li–6Er alloy were investigated in this paper. The results show that the Mg–9Li–6Er alloy mainly consists of α phase and β phase along with Er5Mg24 eutectic. The strain path was changed between rolling passes during the cross-rolling process, which led to a weaker texture development compared to the conventional unidirectional-rolling method. At the same time, cross-rolling process makes the alloys have a much significant deformation strengthening effect than that of the unidirectionally-rolling process, which can be mainly attributed to the change in strain path, making the α phase distributes disorderly in the β phase and interacts with each other into a network. On the other hand, due to the disordered distribution of matrix phases, uniform plastic deformation is blocked, and thus the ductility is greatly lowered.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the NSFC Funding (51371062, and U1460102), NSFHLJ (ZD201411), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars (Heilongjiang Province) and the Project for Innovative Talents of Science and Technology of Harbin (2014RFXXJ006).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, People’s Republic of China

    Yun Zou, Hao Guo, Songsong Xu, Yu Zhao, Milin Zhang & Zhongwu Zhang

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, People’s Republic of China

    Yun Zou & Yang Li

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  1. Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona, USA

    Kiran N. Solanki

  2. Lund University , Lund, Skåne Län, Sweden

    Dmytro Orlov

  3. Structural Materials Unit, National Inst for Materials Sci Structural Materials Unit, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Alok Singh

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Zou, Y. et al. (2017). Influence of Strain Path Change on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Duplex Mg–Li Alloy. In: Solanki, K., Orlov, D., Singh, A., Neelameggham, N. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_40

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