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An ultrasonic internal friction study of ultrafine-grained AZ31 magnesium alloy

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Internal friction in ultrafine-grained AZ31 magnesium alloy is investigated by resonant ultrasound spectroscopy. It is shown that the internal friction significantly increases at elevated temperatures (\({\gtrsim }100\) °C), and that this increase can be attributed to grain boundary sliding (GBS). The evolution of this phenomenon with grain refinement is studied by comparing the results obtained for an extruded material and for materials after additional one, two, and four passes of equal channel angular pressing. It is observed that the activation energy for diffusive GBS significantly decreases with decreasing grain size, and so does also the threshold temperature above which this internal friction mechanism is dominant. The results prove that the ultrafine-grained AZ31 alloys exhibit diffusive GBS at temperatures close to the ambient temperature, which is an interesting finding with respect to the possible applications of these alloys in superplastic forming technologies.

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  1. Let us point out that in the high-frequency limit the \(Q^{-1}(T)\) does not exhibit any peak behavior common for low-frequency (\({\lesssim}\) 10 Hz) measurements, cf. Fan et al.[22, 23].

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This work has been financially supported by the Czech Science Foundation (Project No. GA13-13616S).

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  1. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Trojanova 13, 120 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Martin Koller

  2. Institute of Thermomechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejškova 5, 18200, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Sedlák, Hanuš Seiner, Martin Ševčík & Michal Landa

  3. Department of Physics of Materials, Charles University in Prague, Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Jitka Stráská & Miloš Janeček

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Koller, M., Sedlák, P., Seiner, H. et al. An ultrasonic internal friction study of ultrafine-grained AZ31 magnesium alloy. J Mater Sci 50, 808–818 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-014-8641-1

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