Experimental Investigation of Cavitation Behavior in AZ61 Magnesium Alloy

Aging behavior of nano-SiCp reinforced AZ61 magnesium matrix composites

Male, born in 1962, Ph.D, Professor. He obtained his Ph.D at Nanchang University. His research and teaching interests mainly focus on magnesium/aluminum alloys and investment casting process. He has published more than 200 papers by now. E-mail: [email protected] Received: 2011-01-25; Accepted: 2011-05-04 *Yan Hong *Yan Hong, Hu Xiaowu, Nie Qiao and Chen Lei (School of Mechanical-Electrical En...

Effect of Stress Ratio on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Magnesium Alloy AZ61 under 3.5 Mass% NaCl Spray Environment*

Fatigue crack growth behavior of AZ61 magnesium alloy was investigated in low humidity (55% relative humidity) and 3.5% NaCl spray environments under various stress ratios. Fatigue crack growth rates became higher with increasing load ratio for both environments. However, the results of fatigue crack growth test under 3.5% NaCl spray environment showed lower fatigue crack propagation rate compa...

Ductility Improvement of an AZ61 Magnesium Alloy through Two-Pass Submerged Friction Stir Processing

Friction stir processing (FSP) has been considered as a novel technique to refine the grain size and homogenize the microstructure of metallic materials. In this study, two-pass FSP was conducted under water to enhance the cooling rate during processing, and an AZ61 magnesium alloy with fine-grained and homogeneous microstructure was prepared through this method. Compared to the as-cast materia...

Microstructure-sensitive investigation of magnesium alloy fatigue

Numerical Analysis of Az61 Magnesium Alloy Extrusion Process by Modified Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ecae) Method

T. Bajor, M. Krakowiak, P. Szota, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland The paper presents the results of numerical modelling of AZ61 magnesium alloy hot deformation using modified ECAE method. The temperature-velocity conditions were analysed using FEM. The extrusion process was realised using the die with modified angular channel containing horizontal contracting zone in t...