Frontiers in Materials (Jun 2020)
Effect of Titanium on Microstructure, Texture, and Mechanical Property of As-Extruded Mg—Sn Alloy
Abstract
The effect of titanium on the microstructure, the texture, and the mechanical properties of as-extruded Mg–Sn alloy has been investigated in the present work. The result reveals that the alloy subjected to the optimized extrusion process shows an extremely refined microstructure with an average grain size of 1.7 μm. Meanwhile, the addition of titanium has an obvious effect on intensifying the basal texture where the basal slip cannot be easily activated during tensile testing. As a result, the alloy shows excellent mechanical properties where yield strength and elongation are 200 MPa and 30.2%, respectively. The enhanced yield strength of the alloy can be attributed to the extremely refined microstructure and the intensified basal texture, while the improved elongation of the alloy can be explained by the ultra-fine-grained microstructure through reducing the critical resolved shear stress that favors the prismatic slip activity to accommodate the basal slip.
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