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Part A: Materials Science

The effect of hardening by annealing in ultrafine-grained Al–0.4Zr alloy: influence of Zr microadditives

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Pages 2424-2443 | Received 02 Apr 2019, Accepted 07 Jun 2019, Published online: 21 Jun 2019
 

ABSTRACT

Influence of annealing on the microstructure and mechanical properties has been studied for Al–Zr (0.4 wt.%) alloy with the ultrafine-grained (UFG) structure formed by high-pressure torsion (HPT) at room temperature. A drastic hardening effect by short-term annealing in the temperature range of 90–280°С was observed for the HPT-processed Al–Zr alloy. The effect of hardening by annealing for the HPT-processed Al–Zr alloy is compared with that for the HPT-processed commercial purity (CP) Al. It was shown that addition of 0.4 wt.% Zr in Al does not cause a significant impact on the magnitude of hardening by annealing up to 150°С, however it leads to a shift of its maximum to higher annealing temperatures and expansion of the thermal stability range of strength up to 280°С. The kinetics of hardening by annealing for CP Al and Al–Zr alloys in the UFG state has been studied for the first time. It was shown that in both materials the strength first increases linearly with the duration of annealing and then reaches saturation. The temperature dependence of the rate of hardening by annealing was analysed through an Arrhenius law, and apparent activation energy was extracted for both systems. The addition of Zr results in the reduction of the activation energy of annealing-induced hardening by ∼2 times. Possible physical mechanisms controlling the kinetics of hardening by annealing are discussed for the ultrafine-grained CP Al and Al–Zr alloy.

Acknowledgements

Anvils for HPT tool were produced in collaboration with the centre ‘Applied aerodynamics’ of the Research Park of St. Petersburg State University.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research [project No. 19-08-00474].

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