Abstract
The tensile behaviours of an Al-14wt.%Ni-14wt.%Mm (Mm ≡ misch metal) crystalline alloy consolidated from its amorphous powders was characterized at strain rates between 10 −3 and 100 s −1 at temperatures from 773 to 898 K. This alloy exhibited superplasticity at unusually high strain rates of nearly 1 s −1 in a temperature range from 848 to 885 K. A maximum elongation of about 650% was obtained at a constant strain rate of 1 s −1 at a very high temperature of 885 K, which was close to or lower than the melting point. The microstructure of the AlNiMm crystalline alloy annealed in the optimum superplastic temperature range consists of grains with a mean size of about 1–2 μm and fine particulates a size of about 1.2 μm and a high volume fraction of about 40%. By incorporation of the temperature dependence of grain size and shear modulus into the constitutive equation, the stress exponent and the activation energy were found to be 2 and 421 kJ mol −1 respectively. It is postulated that superplastic flow in the AlNiMn crystalline alloy is controlled by a grain boundary sliding mechanism, but the accommodation process remained unclear.
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