High-Temperature Tensile Characteristics of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy: Fracture Characteristics and a Physical Mechanism Constitutive Model

Daoguang He; Yuan Chen; Shibing Chen; Yongcheng Lin; Jiafu Wu

doi:10.3390/ma17112628

High-Temperature Tensile Characteristics of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy: Fracture Characteristics and a Physical Mechanism Constitutive Model

Materials (Basel). 2024 May 29;17(11):2628. doi: 10.3390/ma17112628.

Authors

Daoguang He^{1

2}, Yuan Chen^{1

2}, Shibing Chen^{1

2}, Yongcheng Lin^{1

2}, Jiafu Wu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Precision Manufacturing for Extreme Service Performance, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China.

Abstract

High-temperature tensile tests were developed to explore the flow features of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy. The fracture characteristics and microstructural evolution mechanisms were thoroughly revealed. The results demonstrated that both intergranular fractures and ductile fractures occurred, which affected the hot tensile fracture mechanism. During high-temperature tensile, the second phase (Al₂CuMg) at the grain boundaries (GBs) promoted the formation and accumulation of dimples. With the continual progression of high-temperature tensile, the aggregation/coarsening of dimples along GBs appear, aggravating the intergranular fracture. The coalescence and coarsen of dimples are reinforced at higher tensile temperatures or lower strain rates. Considering the impact of microstructural evolution and dimple formation/coarsening on tensile stresses, a physical mechanism constitutive (PMC) equation is herein proposed. According to the validation and analysis, the predictive results were in preferable accordance with the testing data, showing the outstanding reconfiguration capability of the PMC model for high-temperature tensile features in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys.

Keywords: Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloy; constitutive model; fracture mechanism; high-temperature tensile behavior.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52005519), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2022YFB3706902), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2023JJ20065), State Key Laboratory of Featured Metal Materials and Life-cycle Safety for Composite Structures (2022GXYSOF04, 2022GXYSOF24).