Strengthening magnesium by design: Integrating alloying and dynamic processing

Magnesium (Mg) has the lowest density of all structural metals and excellent potential for wide use in applications. While pure Mg inferior mechanical properties; addition further elements at various concentrations produced alloys with enhanced performance corrosion resistance. An important consequence adding such is that saturated matrix can locally decompose to form solute clusters intermetallic particles, often referred as precipitates. Controlling shape, number density, volume fraction, spatial distribution precipitates significantly impacts alloy’s plastic response. Conversely, deformation during thermomechanical processing dramatically impact clustering precipitation. In this paper, we first discuss how atoms, clusters, improve properties alloys. We do so by primarily comparing three alloy systems: Mg–Al, Mg–Zn, Mg–Y-based second part, provide strategies optimizing microstructures controlling nucleation growth processing. Toward end, briefly highlight one enable inverse design a more robust Integrated Computational Materials Design (ICMD) approach.