Precipitation strengthening and reversed yield stress asymmetry in Mg alloys containing rare-earth elements: A quantitative study

AbstractThe effect of prismatic plates on the mechanical behaviour at low and high temperature of a Mg-1 wt.% Mn- 1 wt%Nd alloy was determined. For this purpose, a weakly textured extruded bar, exhibiting similar values for the critical resolved shear stresses of the various deformation systems, was annealed at 275 °C for different time periods. During these thermal treatments the grain size and texture remained invariant, but different precipitate distributions, characterised by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), were generated. The as-extruded and the annealed material were tested under tension and compression at room temperature (RT) and 250 °C along the extrusion direction. Precipitation was observed to harden the alloy at RT and to induce a reversed yield stress (YS) asymmetry, the compressive YS being higher than the tensile YS. At 250 °C, the alloy is anomalously resistant under compressive conditions, exhibiting an enhanced reversed YS asymmetry. In order to assess the strengthening effect of particles on the individual major Mg deformation systems, appropriate versions of the Orowan equation were developed. The correlation of the predicted results with the experimental data revealed that reversed YS asymmetry at RT is attributable to a strong promotion of prismatic slip over twinning. Finally, experimental observations by TEM suggested that reversed YS asymmetry at high temperature arises from a different interaction of pyramidal <c+a> dislocations with particles and solutes in tension and compression

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Influence of texture on the recrystallization mechanisms in an AZ31 Mg sheet alloy at dynamic rates

An AZ31 rolled sheet alloy has been tested at dynamic strain rates View the MathML source at 250 °C up to various intermediate strains before failure in order to investigate the predominant deformation and restoration mechanisms. In particular, tests have been carried out in compression along the rolling direction (RD), in tension along the RD and in compression along the normal direction (ND). It has been found that dynamic recrystallization (DRX) takes place despite the limited diffusion taking place under the high strain rates investigated. The DRX mechanisms and kinetics depend on the operative deformation mechanisms and thus vary for different loading modes (tension, compression) as well as for different relative orientations between the loading axis and the c-axes of the grains. In particular, DRX is enhanced by the operation of 〈c + a〉 slip, since cross-slip and climb take place more readily than for other slip systems, and thus the formation of high angle boundaries is easier. DRX is also clearly promoted by twinning

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Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of Y(1S) and Y(2S) mesons in PbPb collisions at √S^{S}NN = 5.02 TeV

The second-order Fourier coefficients (υ$_{2}$) characterizing the azimuthal distributions of Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) mesons produced in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV are studied. The Υmesons are reconstructed in their dimuon decay channel, as measured by the CMS detector. The collected data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7 nb$^{-1}$. The scalar product method is used to extract the υ$_{2}$ coefficients of the azimuthal distributions. Results are reported for the rapidity range |y| < 2.4, in the transverse momentum interval 0 < p$_{T}$ < 50 GeV/c, and in three centrality ranges of 10–30%, 30–50% and 50–90%. In contrast to the J/ψ mesons, the measured υ$_{2}$ values for the Υ mesons are found to be consistent with zero