Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy Prepared by Electric-Pulse-Assisted Hot Form and Quench Process
摘要
The novel hot forming process composed of hot form and quench (HFQ) and electric pulse treatment (EPT) was proposed to enhance the mechanical properties for Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy. The results show that, the increased current density enhances collisions with atoms, raising their energy and promoting atomic diffusion, thus inducing the increment of the quantity and size for η´ and η phase. The high strength for HFQ + EPT/75 sample was obtained with the value of 622 MPa (UTS) and 545 MPa (YS), and exhibiting the excellent performance (i.e. The product of strength and plasticity: 8210.4 MPa%). Additionally, EPT enables to decrease the nucleation of energy barrier of recrystallization. As the current density increased, high fraction of fine recrystallized grains were observed for the HFQ + EPT/100 sample due to the massive joule heating generated from EPT. The recrystallization mechanism transferred from geometric dynamic recrystallization (GDRX) to continuous dynamic recrystallization (CDRX) + discontinuous dynamic recrystallization (DDRX) to DDRX. And GDRX, CDRX and DDRX mainly rely on grain boundary migration (GBM) + sub-grain rotation (SGR), SGR and GBM, respectively.