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 …

Additive manufacturing of dense WE43 Mg alloy by laser powder bed fusion

H Hyer, L Zhou, G Benson, B McWilliams, K Cho… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
WE43 is a high-strength, corrosion-resistant Mg-alloy containing rare earths such as Y and
Nb, and has potential for many lightweight structural or bioresorbable prosthetic …

Cerium conversion coating and sol-gel coating for corrosion protection of the WE43 Mg alloy

GS Pereira, OMP Ramirez, PRT Avila, JA Avila… - Corrosion …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, the electrochemical behavior and morphological characterization of a system
consisting of a cerium conversion layer, a hybrid sol-gel coating, and the two coatings …

A comparative study on WE43 magnesium alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion coupled with deep cryogenic treatment: Evolution in microstructure and …

K Li, W Chen, B Yin, C Ji, S Bai, R Liao, T Yang… - Additive …, 2023 - Elsevier
WE43 Magnesium alloy is of great potential in the aerospace, biomedicine and
transportation fields, which can be promisingly promoted by the laser powder bed fusion …

The effects of heat treatment on the response of WE43 Mg alloy: crystal plasticity finite element simulation and SEM-DIC experiment

S Ganesan, M Yaghoobi, A Githens, Z Chen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present work addressed the effects of heat treatment on the mechanical response of a
WE43 Mg alloy using an integrated framework of SEM-DIC experiment and CPFE …

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 …

Effect of heat treatment on microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of selective laser melted Mg-11Gd-2Zn-0.4 Zr alloy

Q Deng, Y Wu, W Zhu, K Chen, D Liu, L Peng… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mg-11Gd-2Zn-0.4 Zr (GZ112K, wt.%) alloys fabricated by selective laser
melting (SLM) still contain some hard and brittle β-(Mg, Zn) 3 Gd eutectic phase with an area …

[HTML][HTML] A rolled Mg− 8Al− 0.5 Zn− 0.8 Ce alloy with high strength-ductility synergy via engineering high-density low angle boundaries

X Ma, M Zha, S Wang, Y Yang, H Jia, D Gao… - Journal of Magnesium …, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing low-cost rolled Mg alloys with both high strength and ductility is desirable, while
the improved strength is generally accompanied with decreased ductility. Here, by using …

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 …

The influence of Gd on the recrystallisation, texture and mechanical properties of Mg alloy

J Zhao, B Jiang, J Xu, W He, G Huang, F Pan - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of extruded Mg-xGd sheets (x= 1.0, 1.5,
2.0 and 2.5 wt%) were discussed, and microstructural evolution of an Mg-1.0 Gd alloy during …