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- Title
Effect of 1.5 wt% tin addition on the properties of AZ31 magnesium alloy.
- Authors
Mahallawy, N. El; Akdesir, M.; Palkowski, H.
- Abstract
In this paper, 1.5 wt%Sn was added to the AZ31 magnesium alloy aiming at improving the mechanical properties by using a low cost alloying element. Both alloys were prepared in the cast/heat treated (HT), rolled at 350 °C, rolled/heat treated at 400 °C and extruded at 350 °C. The results indicate that with addition of tin an improvement was obtained in both tensile strength and ductility of the AZ31 alloy in the cast/heat treated and in the extruded conditions. The yield and ultimate tensile strengths reached 98 MPa and 224 MPa respectively with 14 % elongation in the cast/heat treated condition while in the extruded condition these values were 212 MPa and 286 MPa with 20 % elongation. The tensile strength was even higher after rolling reaching 315 MPa for AZ31 with tin addition; however, as the material temperature during the last passes has decreased to relatively low values, the % elongation decreased to 1 %. After heat treatment at 400 °C for 2 hours the % elongation was restored and reached 12 %; this was accompanied by a decrease in tensile strength which reached 276 MPa. The results are discussed in relation to the microstructure evolution including grain size, phase identification, and volume fraction of phases.
- Subjects
TIN alloys; MAGNESIUM alloys; MECHANICAL properties of metals; TENSILE strength; MICROSTRUCTURE
- Publication
Materialwissenschaft und Werkstoffechnik, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 6, p519
- ISSN
0933-5137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mawe.201600710