Simulation of Flow Stress Characteristic During Two-stage Hot Deformation Process in AZ31B Magnesium Alloy

Abstract

A 2-D CA model has been developed to simulate two-stage hot deformation processing of magnesium (Mg) alloy. Based on the fact that Mg has an HCP crystal structure with six-fold symmetry, the model employs hexagonal CA lattice. The physically-based model has integrated the effects of individual metallurgical phenomena related with the hot deformation, including dynamic recrystallization (DRX), static recovery, static recrystallization (SRX), meta-dynamic recrystallization (MDRX) and grain growth, etc. The model is validated by simulating single-stage and two-stage hot compression tests of AZ31B. The effects of temperature, strain rate, the interval and pre-strain on stress-strain curves are investigated. The calculated results are compared with the available experimental findings in AZ31B Mg alloy, and the simulated results agree well with the experimental results and theoretical models.

Keywords

• AZ31B
• two-stage hot compression
• flow stress characteristic
• cellular automaton