Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 626, Issue -, Pages 1-8Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2014.12.016
Keywords
alpha-beta Brass; Hot compression; Mechanical properties; Dynamic recovery; Dynamic recrystallization; Law of mixture
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Hot compression tests were carried out on CuZn39Pb2 and CuZn39Pb3 leaded brasses in the temperature range of 600-800 degrees C at strain rates of 0.001-1 s(-1). The stress-strain curves at low temperatures were characterized by a single peak, while at high temperatures, the flow curves were characterized by a long plateau associated with dynamic recovery. The phase diagram of Cu-Zn-Pb system drawn by the Thermocalc software showed that increasing Pb could shift the phase border between alpha+beta and beta towards the Zn corner, thereby increasing the volume fraction of a at the deformation temperatures. Hot deformation at low temperatures, e.g., 600-700 degrees C, changed the strings of cornered alpha islands to more globularized discrete ones. However, the conventional dynamic recrystallization could not be observed. At 800 degrees C, fine a particles formed through dynamic recrystallization were coexistent with acicular ones formed through quenching of beta from high temperatures. It was found that at low temperatures, e.g., below 700 degrees C-750 degrees C, Pb could contribute to avoiding flow localization in both alloys. At 800 degrees C, more Pb could dissolve into beta leading to more tendency to flow localization. The results showed that at low temperatures, i.e., below 700 degrees C, both materials exhibited higher strength than that predicted by the law of mixture. At high temperatures, particularly beyond 700 degrees C, the predicted values of the law of mixture lay below the experimental flow stresses. This was attributed to the decrease in the volume fraction of a and more dissolution of Pb into beta. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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