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Producing High Strength Aluminum Alloy By Combination Of Equal Channel Angular Pressing And Bake Hardening, Hamid Alihosseini, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Kamran Dehghani, Ghader Faraji Feb 2015

Producing High Strength Aluminum Alloy By Combination Of Equal Channel Angular Pressing And Bake Hardening, Hamid Alihosseini, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Kamran Dehghani, Ghader Faraji

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A combination of severe plastic deformation by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and bake hardening (BH) was used to produce high strength ultrafine-grained AA6061 aluminum alloy. 2, 4 and 8 passes of ECAP were performed, and the bake hardenability of samples was tested by 6% pre-straining followed by baking at 200 °C for 20 min. The microstructures obtained for various passes of ECAP were characterized by XRD, EBSD, and TEM techniques. The microstructures were refined from an average grain size of 20 µm to 212 nm after 8 passes of ECAP. Maximum bake hardenability of 110 MPa, and final yield …


Quantitative Modeling Of The Equilibration Of Two-Phase Solid-Liquid Fe By Atomistic Simulations On Diffusive Time Scales, Ebrahim Asadi, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Sasan Nouranian, Michael I. Baskes Jan 2015

Quantitative Modeling Of The Equilibration Of Two-Phase Solid-Liquid Fe By Atomistic Simulations On Diffusive Time Scales, Ebrahim Asadi, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Sasan Nouranian, Michael I. Baskes

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on the modified-embedded atom method (MEAM) and a phase-field crystal (PFC) model are utilized to quantitatively investigate the solid-liquid properties of Fe. A set of second nearest-neighbor MEAM parameters for higherature applications are developed for Fe, and the solid-liquid coexisting approach is utilized in MD simulations to accurately calculate the melting point, expansion in melting, latent heat, and solid-liquid interface free energy, and surface anisotropy. The required input properties to determine the PFC model parameters, such as liquid structure factor and fluctuations of atoms in the solid, are also calculated from MD …


Dynamic Phases, Pinning, And Pattern Formation For Driven Dislocation Assemblies, Caizhi Zhou, Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Irene J. Beyerlein Jan 2015

Dynamic Phases, Pinning, And Pattern Formation For Driven Dislocation Assemblies, Caizhi Zhou, Charles Reichhardt, Cynthia Olson Reichhardt, Irene J. Beyerlein

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

We examine driven dislocation assemblies and show that they can exhibit a set of dynamical phases remarkably similar to those of driven systems with quenched disorder such as vortices in superconductors, magnetic domain walls, and charge density wave materials. These phases include pinned-jammed, fluctuating, and dynamically ordered states, and each produces distinct dislocation patterns as well as specific features in the noise fluctuations and transport properties. Our work suggests that many of the results established for systems with quenched disorder undergoing plastic depinning transitions can be applied to dislocation systems, providing a new approach for understanding pattern formation and dynamics …