Abstract
The 7075 Al alloy was severely deformed at 350°C by a 3:1 thickness reduction per pass accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process up to six passes. It was found that discontinuous recrystallisation occurs during the inter-pass annealing stages from the third pass on, attributable to the increment of the mean particle size during processing. As a consequence, the mean crystallite size did not decrease, but remained approximately constant at 440nm along the present ARB process and the mean boundary misorientation angle reached a maximum of 30° for the 3-passes sample. However, since nucleation of new grains takes place at the pre-existing grain boundaries, discontinuous recrystallisation results in slight changes in texture throughout the processing, being the orientations in the ARBed samples predominantly located along the typical rolling β-fibre. Uniaxial tests conducted at 300°C and 350°C revealed that the operating deformation mechanism in the processed alloy at such temperatures was grain boundary sliding; the optimum superplastic strain rate being 3×10−3–10−2s−1. Boundary misorientation and thermal stability are the two main factors that contribute to high elongations to failure.
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