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Mechanical property evaluation of an Al-2024 alloy subjected to HPT processing

Mechanical property evaluation of an Al-2024 alloy subjected to HPT processing
Mechanical property evaluation of an Al-2024 alloy subjected to HPT processing
An aluminum-copper alloy (Al-2024) was successfully subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT) up to five turns at room temperature under an applied pressure of 6.0 GPa. The Al-2024 alloy is used as a fuselage structural material in the aerospace sector. Mechanical properties of the HPT-processed Al-2024 alloy were evaluated using the automated ball indentation technique. This test is based on multiple cycles of loading and unloading where a spherical indenter is used. After two and five turns of HPT, the Al-2024 alloy exhibited a UTS value of ~1014 MPa and ~1160 MPa respectively, at the edge of the samples. The microhardness was measured from edges to centers for all HPT samples. These results clearly demonstrate that processing by HPT gives a very significant increase in tensile properties and the microhardness values increase symmetrically from the centers to the edges. Following HPT, TEM examination of the five-turn HPT sample revealed the formation of high-angle grain boundaries and a large dislocation density with a reduced average grain size of ~80 nm. These results also demonstrate that high-pressure torsion is a processing tool for developing nanostructures in the Al-2024 alloy with enhanced mechanical properties
1757-899X
12085
Patil, Deepak C.
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Das, Mousumi
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Langdon, Terence G.
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Patil, Deepak C., Venkateswarlu, K., Kori, S.A., Das, Goutam, Das, Mousumi, Alhajeri, Saleh N. and Langdon, Terence G. (2014) Mechanical property evaluation of an Al-2024 alloy subjected to HPT processing. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 63, 12085. (doi:10.1088/1757-899X/63/1/012085).

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An aluminum-copper alloy (Al-2024) was successfully subjected to high-pressure torsion (HPT) up to five turns at room temperature under an applied pressure of 6.0 GPa. The Al-2024 alloy is used as a fuselage structural material in the aerospace sector. Mechanical properties of the HPT-processed Al-2024 alloy were evaluated using the automated ball indentation technique. This test is based on multiple cycles of loading and unloading where a spherical indenter is used. After two and five turns of HPT, the Al-2024 alloy exhibited a UTS value of ~1014 MPa and ~1160 MPa respectively, at the edge of the samples. The microhardness was measured from edges to centers for all HPT samples. These results clearly demonstrate that processing by HPT gives a very significant increase in tensile properties and the microhardness values increase symmetrically from the centers to the edges. Following HPT, TEM examination of the five-turn HPT sample revealed the formation of high-angle grain boundaries and a large dislocation density with a reduced average grain size of ~80 nm. These results also demonstrate that high-pressure torsion is a processing tool for developing nanostructures in the Al-2024 alloy with enhanced mechanical properties

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Published date: July 2014
Organisations: Engineering Mats & Surface Engineerg Gp

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Local EPrints ID: 368098
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/368098
ISSN: 1757-899X
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ORCID for Terence G. Langdon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-9250

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Date deposited: 12 Sep 2014 10:39
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:13

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Author: Deepak C. Patil
Author: K. Venkateswarlu
Author: S.A. Kori
Author: Goutam Das
Author: Mousumi Das
Author: Saleh N. Alhajeri

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