Grain refined and basal textured surface produced by burnishing for improved corrosion performance of AZ31B Mg alloy

Z. Pu, G. L. Song, S. Yang, J. C. Outeiro, O. W. Dillon, D. A. Puleo, I. S. Jawahir

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Abstract

Grain refinement and strong basal texture were produced on AZ31B Mg alloy surface concomitantly by a newly developed severe plastic deformation (SPD) process, severe plasticity burnishing (SPB). The remarkably improved corrosion resistance of AZ31 in NaCl solution after SPB was attributed mainly to dramatically reduced grain size and strongly basal-textured grain orientation. The residual stresses introduced by SPB were also found to influence the corrosion resistance to some extent. Compared with other SPD processes, SPB is fast, cost-effective, does not change material bulk properties and requires little changes to the industrial production process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)192-201
Number of pages10
JournalCorrosion Science
Volume57
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2012

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Air Products and Chemicals for providing the ICEFLY® liquid nitrogen delivery system to the Institute of Sustainable Manufacturing at the University of Kentucky. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Zhenqing Xu for his help with the corrosion tests at General Motors and Prof. A.C. Batista for his help with the residual stress measurements at University of Coimbra, Portugal. J.C. Outeiro acknowledges the financial support of the European Union, through FEDER program “Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade - COMPETE” and of the Portuguese Government through “FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” under the project with reference PEst-C/FIS/UI0036/2011.

Keywords

  • A. Magnesium
  • B. EIS
  • B. Polarization
  • B. XRD
  • C. Effects of strain

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Chemical Engineering
  • General Materials Science

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