| Issue |
MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 129, 2017
International Conference on Modern Trends in Manufacturing Technologies and Equipment (ICMTMTE 2017)
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| Article Number | 02039 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Advanced Materials and Coatings | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712902039 | |
| Published online | 07 November 2017 | |
Strength and fatigue of an ultrafine-grained Al-Cu-Mg alloy
Ufa State Aviation Technical University, 12 K.Marx St., 450008 Ufa, Russia
* Corresponding author: ela.90@mail.ru
The dependence of strength and fatigue on microstructure of the Al-Cu-Mg alloy has been investigated. Various microstructures of the alloy were produced: the one with a coarse-grained (CG) structure after T6 heat treatment; the one with a homogeneous ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure and the one with a bimodal (mixed) structure, both processed by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP). The mean grain size and morphology of precipitates were studied by transmission electron microscopy. The ultimate tensile strength and the fatigue endurance limit were determined using the tensile and fatigue tests of standard specimens. It is established that the formation of a homogeneous UFG structure and of a bimodal (mixed) structure alloy contributes to a significant increase in microhardness by 16% and 60%, and an increase of the ultimate tensile strength by 20 and 52%, respectively, as compared to the samples subjected to T6 heat treatment. Fatigue tests show that the alloy with a bimodal (mixed) structure has the highest fatigue endurance limit, 45% higher than in the sample subjected to T6 heat treatment. In contrast, the formation of a homogeneous UFG structure enables increasing the fatigue endurance limit by 15% only.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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