Crystallographic Textures of Al and Al-Mg Alloy Formed by Shot-Peening

Abstract

Shot-peening (SP) is one of the severe surface plastic deformation (SSPD) processing techniques. Due to large plastic strain by the SP, the SP for metallic materials forms crystallographic texture on the peened surface. Since the crystallographic texture formed by the SP depends on the dislocation slip, it can be expected that this texture is affected by stacking fault energy (SFE) of the materials. However, effects of the SFE on the crystallographic texture formed on the peened surface by the SP is not clear. In this study, crystallographic textures of pure Al (higher SFE) and Al-10 mass%Mg alloy (lower SFE) formed by the SP are investigated. When the pure Al is SPed, {001}+{111} double fiber texture with the <001> and <111> directions parallel to the plane normal direction of the peened surface is obtained. On the other hand, in the case of Al-10 mass%Mg alloy with the SFE close to the pure Cu, {110} fiber texture is formed as well as the pure Cu. Therefore, it is found that the crystallographic texture formed by the SP is influenced by the SFE.