Abstract
The present work was undertaken to improve superplastic ductility of friction-stir welded joints of ultrafine-grained (UFG) Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy. In order to suppress the undesirable abnormal grain growth, which typically occurs in the heavily deformed base material, the UFG material was produced at elevated temperature. It was suggested that the new processing route could reduce dislocation density in the UFG structure and thus enhance its thermal stability. It was found, however, that the new approach resulted in a relatively high fraction of low-angle boundaries which, in turn, retarded grain-boundary sliding during subsequent superplastic tests. Therefore, despite the successful inhibition of the abnormal grain growth in the base-material zone, the superplastic deformation was still preferentially concentrated in the fully-recrystallized stir zone of the material. As a result, the maximal elongation-to-failure did not exceed 700%.
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