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Severe Plastic Deformation
Severe Plastic Deformation
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N. Thiyaneshwaran
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India
P. Sureshkumar
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India
mechanical and wear properties of the alloy before and combinational properties, researches are being done on
after ECAE were investigated to examine the effect of various severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques to
ECAE on Al 5083 alloy. Microstructural investigations produce high strength UFG materials.
were carried out along the flow and transverse planes Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) is
of the extruded alloy using optical microscope and it the most significant and attractive SPD technique in
revealed that the coarse microstructure of the alloy which the materials are extruded without any change in
was refined to a considerable amount. The micro the cross section by subjecting to very large shear
hardness and tensile strength of the alloy increased strain. The processing technique of ECAE involves
with increase in pass number. The wear properties of pressing a billet through a die consisting of two
the alloy after ECAE were improved considerably channels of equal cross section intersecting at a
along with improvement in hardness and tensile specified angle (Φ). A very high shear strain is
strength. It is clear from the results that the mechanical imposed on the material when it passes through the
properties of the alloy were improved to a particular shear zone of the die [1-3]. Since the billet material has
extent due to the highly refined grains imparted by nearly the same cross section before and after ECAE, it
ECAE process and it makes the alloy to be used in can be pressed through the die repeatedly for more
various engineering applications requiring high passes. The deformation route can be varied between
strength. consecutive passes by rotating the billets through 0º
Keywords: Equal channel angular extrusion, (route-A), 90º alternate direction (route-BA), 90º same
optical microscope, wear, aluminum 5083 alloy. direction (route-Bc) and 180º (route-C) [4]. The strain
developed and the microstructural changes in the
material are controlled by choosing the appropriate
1. Introduction channel angle (Φ), deformation route (route-A, route-
BA, route-Bc or route-C) and the number of passes [4-
Aluminum and its alloys are being widely 6]. Extensive research has been done on ECAE for the
used as a predominant material in various engineering past two decades to process materials such as
applications. More significantly, ultra fine grained aluminum alloys, magnesium, chromium, copper,
(UFG) high strength aluminum 5083 alloy is in great silver, steel and titanium [7-17, 25]. Most of the studies
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2. Experimentation
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loss and wear rates for the various load conditions were
plotted. To study the effect of sliding distance on mass
loss and wear rate, tests were conducted by varying the
sliding distance from 1.3 to 3.3km and the graphs were
plotted. Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) images
were taken to examine the morphologies of the worn
surfaces of the samples.
3.1. Microstructure
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Fig.3 Microstructure of AL 5083 alloy (a) & (b) after one pass ECAE;
(c) & (d) after two pass ECAE (T- transverse, F- flow)
3.2.1. Microhardness
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