TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of solute atoms on fracture toughness in dilute magnesium alloys
AU - Somekawa, Hidetoshi
AU - Inoue, Tadanobu
AU - Tsuzaki, Kaneaki
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Dr Y. Osawa and Ms R. Komatsu (National Institute for Materials Science) for his casting and her technical help, respectively. This work was partially supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid in No. 23760675.
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - The effect of alloying elements on the toughness and the fracture behaviour was investigated on seven kinds of Mg-0.3 at.% X (X= Ag, Al, Ca, Pb, Sn, Y and Zn) alloys with a grain size of 3-5 μm. The fracture toughness and fracture behaviour in magnesium alloys were closely related to the segregation energy. The Mg-Al and -Zn alloys that had small segregation energy showed high toughness and ductile fracture in most regions, while the Mg-Ca alloy with large segregation energy exhibited low toughness and intergranular fracture. These different tendencies resulted from solute segregation at grain boundaries (GBs). The change in the lattice parameter ratio was the influential material parameter regardless of whether the GB embrittlement was for enhancement or suppression.
AB - The effect of alloying elements on the toughness and the fracture behaviour was investigated on seven kinds of Mg-0.3 at.% X (X= Ag, Al, Ca, Pb, Sn, Y and Zn) alloys with a grain size of 3-5 μm. The fracture toughness and fracture behaviour in magnesium alloys were closely related to the segregation energy. The Mg-Al and -Zn alloys that had small segregation energy showed high toughness and ductile fracture in most regions, while the Mg-Ca alloy with large segregation energy exhibited low toughness and intergranular fracture. These different tendencies resulted from solute segregation at grain boundaries (GBs). The change in the lattice parameter ratio was the influential material parameter regardless of whether the GB embrittlement was for enhancement or suppression.
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U2 - 10.1080/14786435.2013.838008
DO - 10.1080/14786435.2013.838008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84889887876
SN - 1478-6435
VL - 93
SP - 4582
EP - 4592
JO - Philosophical Magazine
JF - Philosophical Magazine
IS - 36
ER -