Rare earth based magnesium alloys—a review on WE series

LM Calado, MJ Carmezim, MF Montemor - Frontiers in Materials, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Magnesium and magnesium alloys have attracted growing attention over the last decades
as lightweight materials for a wide range of applications. In particular, WE series magnesium …

Multiscale modeling of microstructure‐property relationships of polycrystalline metals during thermo‐mechanical deformation

M Knezevic, IJ Beyerlein - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The plastic deformation of polycrystalline metals is primarily carried by the crystallographic
glide of dislocations and growth of deformation twins. According to the thermodynamic …

Determining volume fractions of γ, γ′, γ ″, δ, and MC-carbide phases in Inconel 718 as a function of its processing history using an advanced neutron diffraction …

NC Ferreri, SC Vogel, M Knezevic - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, quantitative crystallographic and microstructural analyses of γ, γ′, γ ″, δ, and
MC carbide phases are performed on wrought samples, samples fabricated via additive …

Mechanical response, twinning, and texture evolution of WE43 magnesium-rare earth alloy as a function of strain rate: Experiments and multi-level crystal plasticity …

WG Feather, S Ghorbanpour, DJ Savage… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This work adapts a recently developed multi-level constitutive model for polycrystalline
metals that deform by a combination of elasticity, crystallographic slip, and deformation …

Effect of hybrid reinforcement and number of passes on microstructure, mechanical and corrosion behavior of WE43 Mg alloy based metal matrix composite

A Maqbool, NF Lone, T Ahmad, NZ Khan… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, a hybrid metal matrix composite with WE43 magnesium alloy as matrix and a
hybrid mixture of NiTi, iron, and tin as reinforcement was fabricated using friction stir …

A crystal plasticity finite element model embedding strain-rate sensitivities inherent to deformation mechanisms: Application to alloy AZ31

WG Feather, DJ Savage, M Knezevic - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
The fundamental power-law relationship representing the flow rule in crystal visco-plasticity
ensures uniqueness in the selection of slip systems accommodating imposed plastic strain …

Modeling of the thermo-mechanical response and texture evolution of WE43 Mg alloy in the dynamic recrystallization regime using a viscoplastic self-consistent …

M Zecevic, M Knezevic, B McWilliams… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a microstructure sensitive model for predicting mechanical response
and texture evolution of metals in the dynamic recrystallization regime. A recently proposed …

Microstructure and texture evolution in Mg/Nb layered materials made by accumulative roll bonding

DJ Savage, IJ Beyerlein, NA Mara, SC Vogel… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, lamellar composite sheets combining one of two fully hexagonal magnesium-
lithium alloys (Mg–4Li and Mg–5Li wt%) and pure niobium (Nb) are manufactured via …

Deformation and fracture mechanisms in WE43 magnesium-rare earth alloy fabricated by direct-chill casting and rolling

M Jahedi, BA McWilliams, M Knezevic - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines deformation behavior of WE43 alloy in direct-chill as-cast (as-cast-
WE43) and rolled heat-treated T6 (WE43-T6) conditions with an emphasis on fracture …

Explicit modeling of double twinning in AZ31 using crystal plasticity finite elements for predicting the mechanical fields for twin variant selection and fracture analyses

M Ardeljan, M Knezevic - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
A number of studies have found that the formation of double twins in low symmetry metals
can lead to the onset of strain localizations, leading further to void nucleation and ultimately …