Improvement of Fatigue Properties in Ultrafine Grained Pure Ti after ECAP(Equal Channel Angular Pressing)

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1494-1502
Author(s):  
Young-In Lee ◽  
Jin-Ho Park ◽  
Deok-Ho Choi ◽  
Myung-Il Choi ◽  
Ho-Kyung Kim
2008 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 827-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilia R. Saitova ◽  
Heinz Werner Höppel ◽  
Matthias Göken ◽  
A.R. Kilmametov ◽  
Irina P. Semenova ◽  
...  

Ti-6Al-4V ELI (extra low interstitials) was processed by equal channel angular pressing in order to obtain an ultrafine-grained (UFG) microstructure which is known to enhance the fatigue behavior of metallic materials. Fatigue properties of UFG Ti-6Al-4V ELI were studied by strain and stress controlled fatigue tests. UFG Ti-6Al-4V ELI shows an improvement of the fatigue behavior compared to conventional grain (CG) size counterpart. Microstructural investigations prior to and after fatigue testing confirm a high structural stability of the UFG material. Hence, the UFG alloy has a high potential for prospective use in biomedical and engineering applications.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1191
Author(s):  
Ryuichi Yamada ◽  
Shoichiro Yoshihara ◽  
Yasumi Ito

A stent is employed to expand a narrowed tubular organ, such as a blood vessel. However, the persistent presence of a stainless steel stent yields several problems of late thrombosis, restenosis and chronic inflammation reactions. Biodegradable magnesium stents have been introduced to solve these problems. However, magnesium-based alloys suffer from poor ductility and lower than desired fatigue performance. There is still a huge demand for further research on new alloys and stent designs. Then, as fundamental research for this, AZ31 B magnesium alloy has been investigated for the effect of equal-channel angular pressing on the fatigue properties. ECAP was conducted for one pass and eight passes at 300 °C using a die with a channel angle of 90°. An annealed sample and ECAP sample of AZ31 B magnesium alloy were subjected to tensile and fatigue tests. As a result of the tensile test, strength in the ECAP (one pass) sample was higher than in the annealed sample. As a result of the fatigue test, at stress amplitude σa = 100 MPa, the number of cycles to failure was largest in the annealed sample, medium in the ECAP (one pass) sample and lowest in the ECAP (eight passes) sample. It was suggested that the small low cycle fatigue life of the ECAP (eight passes) sample is attributable to severe plastic deformation.


2008 ◽  
Vol 579 ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Xu ◽  
Megumi Kawasaki ◽  
Roberto B. Figueiredo ◽  
Zhi Chao Duan ◽  
Terence G. Langdon

Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) is a convenient processing method for refining the grain size of bulk materials to the submicrometer level. Metallic alloys processed by ECAP often exhibit excellent superplastic characteristics including superplasticity at high strain rates. This paper summarizes recent experiments designed to evaluate the occurrence of superplasticity in representative aluminum and magnesium alloys and in the Zn-22% Al eutectoid alloy.


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