Influence of cold rolling and thermal treatment on microstructure and texture evolution, and tensile behaviour of high strength Al-Co-Sc-Zr alloys

Perugu, CS and Cheksa, EM and Mohan, MS and Femi, OE and Padaikathan, P (2022) Influence of cold rolling and thermal treatment on microstructure and texture evolution, and tensile behaviour of high strength Al-Co-Sc-Zr alloys. In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 907 .

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Abstract

The present work is an effort to develop a set of newer aluminum alloys with a minor amount of alloying additions such as Co, Sc and Zr to pure Al in order to achieve higher strength along with a reasonable tensile ductility and improved microstructural stability at elevated temperatures. The alloys were melted using vacuum arc melting and were produced in rectangular slabs by suction casting. The slabs were cold rolled at room temperature up to ~80 reduction followed by direct aging at two different temperatures of 375 °C and 450 °C for 24 h. The effects of alloying additions, cold rolling and subsequent thermal aging were investigated by detailed microstructural examination and tensile testing at room temperature. Microstructural analysis revealed that the alloy contained significant volume fraction of second phase particles such as Al9Co2, Al3Sc and Al3(Sc1�xZrx) and were preferentially distributed in supersaturated equiaxed cells of Al matrix. The existence of Al3(Sc1�xZrx) precipitates together with large fraction of Al9Co2 phase led to higher yield strengths of ~180�250 MPa and 17�20 tensile elongation. Electron backscattered diffraction observations showed equiaxed cells extensively deformed columnar grains and subgrain formation within the elongated grains in the rolling direction. The cold rolled plus aged samples exhibited a major fraction of rotated cube texture along with improved microstructural stability after high-temperature aging. This could be related to the existence of fine and stable Al9Co2 phase and Al3(Sc1�xZrx) precipitates, which control grain growth and thereby these alloys thermally stable at high temperatures. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Publisher:	Elsevier Ltd
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
Date Deposited:	11 May 2022 16:04
Last Modified:	11 May 2022 16:04
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/71613

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