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Publisher’s version / Version de l'éditeur: Magnesium technology 2011, p. 233, 2011-02-01 READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/copyright Vous avez des questions? Nous pouvons vous aider. Pour communiquer directement avec un auteur, consultez la première page de la revue dans laquelle son article a été publié afin de trouver ses coordonnées. Si vous n’arrivez pas à les repérer, communiquez avec nous à PublicationsArchive-ArchivesPublications@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca. Questions? Contact the NRC Publications Archive team at PublicationsArchive-ArchivesPublications@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca. If you wish to email the authors directly, please see the first page of the publication for their contact information. NRC Publications Archive Archives des publications du CNRC This publication could be one of several versions: author’s original, accepted manuscript or the publisher’s version. / La version de cette publication peut être l’une des suivantes : la version prépublication de l’auteur, la version acceptée du manuscrit ou la version de l’éditeur. For the publisher’s version, please access the DOI link below./ Pour consulter la version de l’éditeur, utilisez le lien DOI ci-dessous. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118062029.ch45 Access and use of this website and the material on it are subject to the Terms and Conditions set forth at Application of neutron diffraction in characterization of texture evolution during high-temperature creep in magnesium alloys Sediako, D.; Shook, S.; Vogel, S.; Sediako, A. https://publications-cnrc.canada.ca/fra/droits L’accès à ce site Web et l’utilisation de son contenu sont assujettis aux conditions présentées dans le site LISEZ CES CONDITIONS ATTENTIVEMENT AVANT D’UTILISER CE SITE WEB. NRC Publications Record / Notice d'Archives des publications de CNRC: https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=8859e0ca-42a5-4396-a017-83b876a86953 https://publications-cnrc.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=8859e0ca-42a5-4396-a017-83b876a86953

APPLICATION OF NEUTRON DIFFRACTION IN CHARACTERIZATION OF TEXTURE EVOLUTION DURING HIGH-TEMPERATURE CREEP IN MAGNESIUM ALLOYS D. Sediako 1 , S. Shook 2 , S. Vogel 3 , and A. Sediako 4 1 Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Chalk River Laboratories, ON, Canada 2 Applied Magnesium International, Denver, CO, USA 3 Los Alamos Neutron Science Center, Los Alamos, NM, USA 4 McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada Keywords: High temperature creep, magnesium alloy, texture, neutron diffraction Abstract A good combination of room-temperature and elevated temperature strength and ductility, good salt-spray corrosion resistance and excellent diecastability are frequently among the main characteristics considered when developing a new magnesium alloy. Unfortunately, much less effort has been expended developing wrought-stock alloys for high temperature applications. Extrudability and high temperature performance of wrought material becomes an important factor in an effort to develop new wrought alloys and processing technologies. This paper shows some results obtained from creep testing and studies of in-creep texture evolution, for several wrought magnesium alloys developed for use in elevated-temperature applications. Introduction Despite the enormous efforts expended to develop high-strength, high-temperature magnesium alloys, the most typical applications of magnesium in the automotive industry are still limited to a few select applications such as instrument panels, steering wheels, and valve covers. Limited success was attained in the use of magnesium in powertrain applications such as transmission cases and engine blocks [1-9]. These applications experience service conditions within the temperature range of 150-200 o C under 50- 70 MPa of tensile and compressive loads. In addition, metallurgical stability, fatigue resistance, corrosion resistance, and castability requirements need to be met. More than a decade of research and development has resulted in a number of creep- resistant magnesium alloys that are potential candidates for elevated-temperature automotive applications. These alloys are mostly based on rare-earth and alkaline-earth element additions to magnesium. A number of alloys are based on additions of Si, Sr, and Ca. Although the majority of the material used in the automotive industry is in the form of castings, the use of wrought products in automotive applications is on the rise. Extruded sections provide opportunities for the mass-efficient design of structural and interior automobile components. One of the main criteria for acceptable material performance in high temperature automotive applications is its resistance to creep. However, low resistance to creep deformation at elevated temperatures has been one of the main restricting factors in applying magnesium alloys. Depending on the manufacturing route and resulting grain/crystallographic matrix, wrought magnesium alloys can exhibit quite different creep behavior, compared to similar cast alloys. Several creep-resistant wrought alloys have been studied in [10, 11]. It was shown that magnesium exhibits different creep properties under tension and compression. These studies also presented data gathered from the analysis of crystallographic texture and creep-induced residual stress –factors that would most certainly affect service properties of the material. The targeted alloying groups were magnesium-aluminum-rare earth, magnesium-aluminum-strontium, magnesium-aluminum-calcium, and magnesium-zinc-rare earth. The chemical compositions of the analyzed samples correspond to the following alloy designations: AE42, AE33, AX30, AZX310, AJ32, EZ33, and ZE10. The seven alloys targeted in this study were produced by the magnesium division of Timminco Corporation, now Advanced Magnesium International (AMI). The material was cast using a unique controlled-cooling static casting process, followed by hot extrusion. All alloys exhibited exceptionally good castability, as well as formability in the extrusion process. The current analysis is part of a continuing effort to develop low- cost, wrought magnesium alloys with improved castability and formability, suitable for high temperature applications, and to add to the understanding of material behavior during high-temperature creep. High-Temperature Creep Testing The wrought material received from AMI was subsequently subjected to a tensile creep test at 150 and 175 o C and then to a 200-hour compressive creep test at 150 o C under a load of 50 MPa. All the samples were creep-tested along the extrusion direction. The following charts (Figure 1) illustrate some selected results of these tests. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 AE42 AE33 AX30 AZX310 AJ32 ZE10 EZ33 Tensile Creep % 150C 175C 200 hrs 50 Mpa Figure 1. Resistance to creep for selected alloys at 150 and 175 o C 233 Magnesium Technology 2011 Edited by: Wim H. Sillekens, Sean R. Agnew, Neale R. Neelameggham, and Suveen N. Mathaudhu TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society), 2011

0 2 4 6 8 10 AE42/33 AX30 AZX310 AJ32 ZE10 EZ33 Creep, % Tensile Creep % Compression creep, % Figure 2 Tension-compression asymmetry in resistance to creep, at 150 o C Data shown in Figure 1 illustrate the comparison between results obtained in the tensile tests at 150 and 175 o C, which included both primary and secondary creep. As expected, the 25 o C temperature increase lead to significantly reduced resistance to creep, typically a reduction by a factor of three for all alloys, except for ZE10 and EZ33. Evidently, the manufacturing route applied in this study (permanent mould casting + hot extrusion) resulted in superior high temperature creep properties for the Mg-Zn-RE alloying system. This finding was also confirmed in the compressive creep test, performed at 150 o C. It is known that HCP crystallographic systems typically exhibit greatly reduced resistance to creep in compression. This can also be observed in Figure 2, which shows the tension/compression asymmetry in creep resistance for the alloys studied. Figure 2 indicates that for identical applied loads and test durations, resistance to creep was reduced by a factor of 3.5 to around 4 for all of alloys, with the exception, again, of ZE10 and EZ33. It can be concluded from these observations that, compared to the other samples studied, the applied manufacturing route favourably affected the ability of the Mg-Zn-RE alloying system to resist high-temperature creep, both in tension and in compression. In addition, almost no tension-compression asymmetry was observed for the ZE-group samples (in all tests, the resulting creep was within 0.25 to about 0.3% for the ZE10 samples and within 0.1 to about 0.2 for EZ33). Figures 1 and 2 also show that in all tests the AE-group samples exhibited inferior creep properties, compared to the other three alloying systems. This was partially explained in [11] by the presence of β -phase Mg 17 Al 12 , along the grain boundaries in the magnesium matrix, which significantly reduced creep resistance at elevated temperatures. A reference was also made to the possible effect of initial texture (i.e., texture prior to creep). Texture Evolution during Creep Deformation It was suggested in [11] that the strength of the initial extrusion- type crystallographic texture may be another factor affecting the material resistance to creep. It can be assumed that, considering the amount of creep deformation obtained in this study (up to 10~12% strain), there could be noticeable texture evolution or modification during creep testing. These two assumptions were verified by texture analysis performed in the HIPPO (High- Pressure-Preferred-Orientation) time-of-flight spectrometer at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. The time-of-flight method employed by HIPPO for texture analysis is well described in earlier study [12]. Similar studies have earlier been performed at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre at Chalk River, ON, on pure magnesium and Mg-1.5wt.%Mn samples [13, 14]. It was confirmed that the tested material underwent significant texture modification during creep testing at 150 o C and under a load of 50MPa. A typical “rolling” texture could be observed on the crept specimens. Important conclusions were reached regarding creep deformation mechanisms for the studied materials. The pictures presented in Figures 3 and 4 show the results of texture calculation using the E-WIMF algorithm of the MAUD texture-analysis software [12], based on neutron measurements for several selected alloys. a. – AE42 b. – AJ32 c. – AX30 d. – EZ33 Figure 3 As-extruded texture for selected alloys, (0002) reflection As expected, Figure 3 indicates that the selected alloys exhibited typical magnesium extrusion texture, with the (0002) poles aligned preferentially normal to the extrusion axis. The basal pole figures have similar strength for the basal texture, ranging from 4.5 m.r.d. (i.e. multiple of random distribution) for AE42 to 5.4 m.r.d. for EZ33. Figure 4, however, shows somewhat different intensities, for the prismatic {10 0} orientation, for the initial texture, and for modified textures as a result of creep deformation. All samples in Figure 4 were identified in the following manner: - As-extruded (i.e. not creep tested) – all a. samples; - After the compression-creep test, 150 o C – all b. samples - After the tensile-creep test, 175 o C – all c. samples 234

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