Microstructure and mechanical properties of nanocrystalline high strength Al–Mg–Si (AA6061) alloy by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering |
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Authors: | Jatinkumar Kumar Rana D Sivaprahasam K Seetharama Raju V Subramanya Sarma |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India;bInternational Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad 500005, India |
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Abstract: | In the present paper, the microstructure and mechanical properties of nanostructured Al–Mg–Si based AA6061 alloy obtained by high energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering were reported. Gas atomized microcrystalline powder of AA6061 alloy was ball milled under wet condition at room temperature to obtain nanocrystalline powder with grain size of 30 nm. The nanocrystalline powder was consolidated to fully dense compacts by spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 500 °C. The grain size after SPS consolidation was found to be 85 nm. The resultant SPS compacts exhibited microhardness of 190–200 HV100 g, compressive strength of 800 MPa and strain to fracture of 15%. |
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Keywords: | Nanocrystalline materials Al alloys Spark plasma sintering Mechanical properties |
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