Effect of heat treatment on hot deformation behavior and microstructure

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Effectofheattreatmentonhotdeformationbehaviorandmicrostructure

evolutionof7085aluminumalloy

SongyiChena,KanghuaChena,⇑,GuoshengPenga,XuehaiChena,QinghuaCengb

aStateKeyLaboratoryofPowderMetallurgy,CentralSouthUniversity,Changsha410083,ChinabSouthwestAluminum(Group)Co.,Ltd.,Chongqing401326,China

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Articlehistory:

Received10March2012

Receivedinrevisedform30April2012

Accepted15May2012

Availableonline24May2012

Keywords:

7085Aluminumalloy

Heattreatment

Hotdeformationbehavior

Dynamicprecipitationabstract

Thehotdeformationbehaviorsof7085aluminumalloytreatedby(a)homogenizationand(b)solution

treatmentwerestudiedbyaseriesofcompressiontestingoveratemperaturerangefrom300°Cto

450°Cwithstrainratefrom0.0001sÀ1to1sÀ1.Theresultsshowtheflowstressesaresensitivetothe

deformationparametersandheattreatmentconditions.Thepeakflowstressdecreaseswithincreasing

deformationtemperatureanddecreasingstrainrate.Thepeakflowstressofthealloyaftersolutiontreat-

mentissignificantlyhigherthanthatofthealloyafterhomogenizationtreatmentunderthesimilarcom-

pressioncondition,especiallyatlowdeformationtemperature.Thepeakflowstressesforthealloysafter

homogenizationandsolutiontreatmentcanberepresentedbytheZener–Hollomonparameter(Z)inthe

hyperbolic-sineequationwiththehotdeformationactivationenergyof187.4kJ/moland318.9kJ/mol,

respectively.Thedifferencesofbothtreatedalloysonhotdeformationbehaviorsweremainlyattributed

toprecipitationcharacteristic.Theflowstressessofteningforthealloyafterhomogenizationtreatmentis

accountedfordynamicrecoveryanddynamicrecrystallization.However,dynamicprecipitationand

coarseningaswellasdynamicrecoveryareresponsiblefortheflowstresssofteningatlowdeformation

temperaturewhiledynamicrecoveryanddynamicrecrystallizationarethemainreasonsfortheflow

stresssofteningathighdeformationtemperatureforthealloyaftersolutiontreatment.

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1.Introduction

Al–Zn–Mg–Cualloyhasbeenwidelyusedasstructuralmaterial

inaerospaceduetolowdensity,excellentstresscorrosionresis-

tanceandfracturetoughness[1].Thehotdeformationbehavior

wasthebasicparametertocharacterizeplasticdeformationprop-

ertiesofalloys,andgrainstructureevolutionduringhotdeforma-

tionaffectedthestrengthandfracturetoughness[2,3].Inrecent

years,anumberofstudiesonhotdeformationbehaviorandmicro-

structureevolutionofAl–Zn–Mg–Cualloyshavebeenreported.Jin

etal.[4]investigatedthehotdeformationbehaviorof7150Alal-

loy,indicatingthepeakflowstressdecreasedwithincreasing

deformationtemperatureanddecreasingstrainrate.Huetal.[5]

reportedthemaindeformationmechanismof7050Alalloywas

grainboundaryslipathighZparametervaluewhilegrainbound-

ariesslidingatlowZparametervalue.Zhenetal.[6]demonstrated

thattheaveragegrainboundarymisorientationangleof7050alu-

minumalloyafterhigh-temperaturecompressionincreasedwith

anincreasedeformationtemperature.

Moreover,recentlyresearchesobservedhotdeformationbehav-

iorsweresignificantlyaffectedbyheattreatmentconditions.GavgaliandAksakal[7]demonstratedthehotworkabilityof2014

Alalloyincreasedwithincreasinghomogenizationtemperature.

TotikandGavgali[8]foundthatthedifferencesofpeakflowstress

andfracturestrainbetweeningotsurfaceandcenterweregradually

decreasedwithanincreasehomogenizationtemperature.Zhang

andBaker[9]reportedthat6082AlalloytreatedbytheT4temper

showeddistinctsofteningatthelowstrainratewhiletherewasno

significantlysofteningunderannealingtreatment.McQueenetal.

[10]revealedthatdynamicprecipitationincreasedtheinitialflow

stressofAl–Mg–Sialloyandresultedinshearbandingandfine

polygonizedsubstructure.Ebrahimietal.[11]foundthatdynamic

precipitationandparticlescoarsenledtoflowstresssofteningin

thesolidsolutionstatewhilenosofteningintheannealedstateof

2024Alalloy.Cerrietal.[12]reportedthatpretreatmentinfluenced

thehotdeformationactivationenergyof7075Alalloy.Thehot

deformationactivationenergyoftheprecipitatedalloywasclose

topurealuminumbutlowerthanthesolutiontreatedalloy.

7085Alalloywasdevelopedsince2002byAlcoaasthenew

generationhighstrengththickplatealloy,whichhasthehigher

fracturetoughnessandlowerquenchsensitivitythan7050Alalloy

[13–15].Thehotdeformationbehaviorwasavitalfactorfortheal-

loydevelopmentandapplication.However,therewaslittlere-

searchabouthotdeformationbehaviorofthealloy,especially

withdifferentheattreatment.Thepurposeofthestudywasto

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2012.05.052⇑Correspondingauthor.Tel.:+8673188830714;fax:+8673188710855.

E-mailaddresses:csuchenkh@126.com,khchen@csu.edu.cn(K.

Chen).JournalofAlloysandCompounds537(2012)338–345

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