Seventy years of Hall-Petch, ninety years of superplasticity and a generalized approach to the effect of grain size on flow stress

RB Figueiredo, M Kawasaki, TG Langdon - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The grain size, and therefore the grain boundary density, is known to play a major role in the
flow stress of metallic materials. A linear relationship to the inverse of the square root of the …

Magnesium extrusion alloys: a review of developments and prospects

Z Zeng, N Stanford, CHJ Davies, JF Nie… - International Materials …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Magnesium (Mg) alloys have received a significant interest in the past 20 years, owing to a
nonlinearly increasing demand for lightweight structural materials. Magnesium extrusions …

Grain size effect on tensile properties and slip systems of pure magnesium

K Wei, R Hu, D Yin, L Xiao, S Pang, Y Cao, H Zhou… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Grain refinement can significantly enhance the strength of metallic materials, but usually at
the sacrifice of ductility. Here we report that refinement of magnesium grains can not only …

Transition of dominant deformation mode in bulk polycrystalline pure Mg by ultra-grain refinement down to sub-micrometer

R Zheng, JP Du, S Gao, H Somekawa, S Ogata, N Tsuji - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys usually show relatively low strength and poor ductility at
room temperature due to their anisotropic hexagonal close-packed (HCP) crystal structure …

Mechanistic origin and prediction of enhanced ductility in magnesium alloys

Z Wu, R Ahmad, B Yin, S Sandlöbes, WA Curtin - Science, 2018 - science.org
Pure magnesium exhibits poor ductility owing to pyramidal〈 c+ a〉 dislocation
transformations to immobile structures, making this lowest-density structural metal unusable …

Microstructure, deformation, and property of wrought magnesium alloys

JF Nie, KS Shin, ZR Zeng - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2020 - Springer
Pure magnesium (Mg) develops a strong basal texture after conventional processing of hot
rolling or extrusion. Consequently, it exhibits anisotropic mechanical properties and is …

[HTML][HTML] Severe plastic deformation (SPD) of biodegradable magnesium alloys and composites: A review of developments and prospects

M Kasaeian-Naeini, M Sedighi, R Hashemi - Journal of Magnesium and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of magnesium in orthopedic and cardiovascular applications has been widely
attracted by diminishing the risk of abnormal interaction of the implant with the body tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation mechanisms in ultrafine-grained metals with an emphasis on the Hall–Petch relationship and strain rate sensitivity

RB Figueiredo, TG Langdon - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrafine-grained materials display almost no strain hardening, an enhanced strain rate
sensitivity and grain boundary offsets during plastic deformation. It is expected that …

Diffusional and dislocation accommodation mechanisms in superplastic materials

H Masuda, E Sato - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Significant developments in the microstructural characterization of superplasticity have been
achieved in the 2010s, which can be attributed to advanced electron microscopy and well …

Deformation mechanisms in a novel multiscale hetero-structured Mg alloy with high strength-ductility synergy

T Wang, M Zha, Y Gao, SQ Wang, HL Jia… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most of the high-strength Mg alloys exhibit poor ductility at room temperature. Architecturing
appropriate heterostructure in metallic materials gives rise to the breakthrough of the …