Grain Refinement and Ductility Improvement by Hot Extrusion Using a Heteromorphic Die with Small Holes
Grain Refinement and Ductility Improvement by Hot Extrusion Using a Heteromorphic Die with Small Holes
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DOI：
10.2320/matertrans.m2016005
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发表时间：
2016-04
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1.2
通讯作者：
K. Tomita;T. Tokunaga;M. Ohno;K. Matsuura
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K. Tomita;T. Tokunaga;M. Ohno;K. Matsuura
It has been shown using an Al4.0 massCu alloy as a demonstration material that hot extrusion with the use of a specially designed die, which is called a heteromorphic die, leads to grain refinement and improvement in ductility. The heteromorphic die consists of two plates and one spacer. One plate is called a straingiving die and has six holes of 5 mm in diameter, while the other plate is called a shapegiving die and has one rectangular hole of 9 mm×15 mm in side length. The spacer separates these plates at a distance of 10 mm and gives a space between them. The AlCu alloy billet was hotextruded from the straingiving die into the space between the two dies to produce six thin bars, and all the six bars passed together through the shapegiving die to become a thick rectangular bar. The rectangular bar produced by the present extrusion was tensiletested at room temperature and the results were compared with those of the unextruded billet and the bar produced by a conventional hot extrusion using only the shapegiving die. The elongation of the specimens made of the billet, the bar extruded by the conventional method and the one extruded using the present heteromorphic die were 21, 35 and 57, respectively. The largest elongation found in the sample extruded using the present heteromorphic die should be due to the fine recrystallized grain structure in that sample. It is suggested that the recrystallization is induced by a large strain generated in the present heteromorphic die due to the friction at the large contact area between the die hole wall and the alloy. [doi:10.2320/jinstmet.J2014052]
