Abstract

The interaction between Zr addition and intensive melt shearing on grain refinement of commercial purity Mg has been investigated experimentally. It was found that, without intensive melt shearing, the grain structure of Mg is changed from columnar grains to equiaxed grains with the increase in Zr concentration. However, with intensive melt shearing, the grain structure of Mg undergoes a complex change as a function of Zr concentration; for instance, the grain structure showed equiaxed grains at 0.1wt. % Zr concentration, while it was changed to columnar grains at 1wt. % Zr concentration. It was noted that, particularly, under the intensive melt shearing condition, the grain size of Mg with minor addition of Zr (0.1%) was further decreased to 134 ± 4 μm compared with that of Mg without Zr addition (217 ± 15 μm).

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