Improvement of formability and mechanical properties of magnesium alloys via pre-twinning: A review

B Song, N Guo, T Liu, QS Yang - Materials & Design (1980-2015), 2014 - Elsevier
Twinning can generate the change of texture and a large of twin boundaries, which can
greatly influence the mechanical properties of magnesium alloys. Thus, pre-twinning can be …

Ductility improvement of Mg alloys by solid solution: Ab initio modeling, synthesis and mechanical properties

S Sandlöbes, Z Pei, M Friák, LF Zhu, F Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The I 1 intrinsic stacking fault energy (I 1 SFE) serves as an alloy design parameter for
ductilizing Mg alloys. In view of this effect we have conducted quantum–mechanical …

Segregation and clustering of solutes at grain boundaries in Mg–rare earth solid solutions

M Bugnet, A Kula, M Niewczas, GA Botton - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study validates the previously reported investigations about segregation of rare-
earth (RE) elements at grain boundaries in Mg–RE alloys and ultimately provides a direct …

Effect of rare-earth additions on the texture of wrought magnesium alloys: the role of grain boundary segregation

JD Robson - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2014 - Springer
Magnesium alloys that contain certain rare-earth (RE) additions are known to have improved
formability and this can be partly attributed to the different texture they display after …

Solute clustering and grain boundary segregation in extruded dilute Mg–Gd alloys

JP Hadorn, TT Sasaki, T Nakata, T Ohkubo, S Kamado… - Scripta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Two single-phase Mg–Gd alloys (0.01 and 0.06 at.% Gd) were identically hot-deformed
through an indirect extrusion process. High-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission …

Microstructure, texture evolution, mechanical properties and corrosion behavior of ECAP processed ZK60 magnesium alloy for biodegradable applications

E Mostaed, M Hashempour, A Fabrizi… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ultra-fine grained ZK60 Mg alloy was obtained by multi-pass equal-channel angular
pressing at different temperatures of 250° C, 200° C and 150° C. Microstructural …

Measuring the critical resolved shear stresses in Mg alloys by instrumented nanoindentation

R Sánchez-Martín, MT Pérez-Prado, J Segurado… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
One of the main limiting factors in the development of new magnesium (Mg) alloys with
enhanced mechanical behavior is the need to use vast experimental campaigns for …

Rate sensitivity and tension–compression asymmetry in AZ31B magnesium alloy sheet

S Kurukuri, MJ Worswick… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The constitutive response of a commercial magnesium alloy rolled sheet (AZ31B-O) is
studied based on room temperature tensile and compressive tests at strain rates ranging …

Fatigue of rare‐earth containing magnesium alloys: a review

FA Mirza, DL Chen - … & Fracture of Engineering Materials & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweighting in ground vehicles is today considered as one of the most effective strategies
to improve fuel economy and reduce anthropogenic environment‐damaging and climate …

In situ observation of collective grain-scale mechanics in Mg and Mg–rare earth alloys

F Wang, S Sandlöbes, M Diehl, L Sharma, F Roters… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The microstructure evolution of pure Mg and two Mg–rare-earth alloys (Mg–3 wt.% Dy and
Mg–3 wt.% Er) was studied during in situ compression tests by electron backscatter …