Mg , Si and die geometry effects on the formability and the machinability of recycled aluminium alloys
Mg, Si and die geometry effects on the formability and machinability were experimentally reported, concerning AA6xxx aluminium alloys which were produced by recycling raw material. The aluminium alloys formability characteristics were evaluated during extrusion and open die forging tests estimating the needed load; the machinability characteristics of the same aluminium alloys were conducted via cutting force measurements during simple turning process. Key-Words: formability, machinability, Mg ratio, Si ratio, extrusion test, cutting, recycling
Effect of predeformation on microstructure and tensile properties of Al-Mg-Si alloys with high silicon content
AbstractThe effect of predeformation on the microstructure and tensile properties of two Al-Mg-Si alloys with high excess Si has been studied by tensile testing and TEM analysis. The results show that the strength of Al-Mg-Si alloys in the underaged condition is greatly increased by prestretching immediately after water quenching. Both the deformation strengthening and the extra precipitation strengthening play important roles in providing the increase in strength. Precipitates of β″ are observed to form directly on dislocations with a larger size than those that form in dislocation free areas. When the prestretching is less than 5%, the increase in predeformation results in an increase in β″ precipitate density, whereas prestretching by 10% leads to larger size but lower density of β″ precipitates.
Across the structural re-entrant transition in BaFe2(PO4)2: influence of the two-dimensional ferromagnetism.
BaFe2(PO4)2 was recently prepared by hydrothermal synthesis and identified as the first two-dimensional (2D) Ising ferromagnetic oxide, in which honeycomb layers made up of edge-sharing FeO6 octahedra containing high-spin Fe(2+) ions (S = 2) are isolated by PO4 groups and Ba(2+) cations. BaFe2(PO4)2 has a trigonal R-3 structure at room temperature but adopts a triclinic P-1 structure below 140 K due to the Jahn-Teller (JT) instability arising from the (t2g)(4)(eg)(2) configuration. The triclinic crystal structure was refined to find significantly distorted Fe(2+)O6 octahedra in the honeycomb layers while the distortion amplitude QJT was estimated to 0.019 Å. The JT stabilization energy is estimated to be ∼7 meV per formula unit by DFT calculations. Below ∼70 K, very close to the ferromagnetic transition temperature Tc = 65.5 K, the structure of BaFe2(PO4)2 returns to a trigonal R-3 structure in the presence of significant ferromagnetic domains. This rare re-entrant structural transition is accompanied by a discontinuous change in the quadrupolar splitting of Fe(2+), as determined by Mössbauer spectroscopy. EPR measurements show the presence of magnetic domains well above Tc , as expected for a ferromagnetic 2D Ising system, and support that the magnetism of BaFe2(PO4)2 is uniaxial (g⊥ = 0).