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Texture-dependent bending behaviors of extruded AZ31 magnesium alloy plates

Available online 12 October 2023

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Kecheng Zhou, Xiaochuan Sun, Hongwei Wang, Xiaodan Zhang, Ding Tang, Weiqin Tang, Yaodong Jiang, Peidong Wu, Huamiao Wang

Abstract

The relatively insufficient knowledge of the deformation behavior has limited the wide application of the lightest structure material-Mg alloys. Among others, bending behavior is of great importance because it is unavoidably involved in various forming processes, such as folding, stamping, etc. The hexagonal close-packed structure makes it even a strong texture-dependent behavior and even hard to capture and predict. In this regard, the bending behaviors are investigated in terms of both experiments and simulations in the current work. Bending samples with longitudinal directions inclined from the transverse direction by different angles have been prepared from an extruded AZ31 plate, respectively. The moment-curvature curves and strain distribution have been recorded in the four-point bending tests assisted with an in-situ digital image correlation (DIC) system. A crystal-plasticity-based bending-specific approach named EVPSC-BEND was applied to bridge the mechanical response to the microstructure evolution and underlying deformation mechanisms. The flow stress, texture, twin volume fraction, stress distribution, and strain distribution evolve differently from sample to sample, manifesting strong texture-dependent bending behaviors. The underlying mechanisms associated with this texture dependency, especially the occurrence of both twinning and detwinning during the monotonic bending, are carefully discussed. Besides, the simulation has been conducted to reveal the moment-inclination angle relation of the investigated AZ31 extruded plate in terms of the polar coordinate, which intuitively shows the texture-dependent behaviors. Specifically, the samples with longitudinal directions parallel to the extruded direction bear the biggest initial yielding moment.



Keywords

Magnesium alloy
;Bending
;Texture-dependency
;Crystal plasticity;
Twinning and detwinning
hanism



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