[HTML][HTML] Ductility and plasticity of nanostructured metals: differences and issues

YT Zhu, XL Wu - Materials Today Nano, 2018 - Elsevier
Ductility is one of the most important mechanical properties for metallic structural materials. It
is measured as the elongation to failure of a sample during standard uniaxial tensile tests …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing mechanical properties of magnesium alloys by philosophy of thermo-kinetic synergy: Review and outlook

T Wang, F Liu - Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, 2022 - Elsevier
Although several strategies (including grain refinement, texture adjustment, precipitation
hardening, etc.) have been verified to effectively improve the mechanical properties of …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation strengthening and reversed yield stress asymmetry in Mg alloys containing rare-earth elements: A quantitative study

P Hidalgo-Manrique, JD Robson, MT Pérez-Prado - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The effect of prismatic plates on the mechanical behaviour at low and high temperature of a
Mg-1 wt.% Mn-1 wt% Nd alloy was determined. For this purpose, a weakly textured extruded …

A new strategy for designing immiscible medium-entropy alloys with excellent tensile properties

J Moon, JM Park, JW Bae, HS Do, BJ Lee, HS Kim - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Here, a new strategy for designing heterogeneous medium-entropy alloys with light-weight
and excellent mechanical properties is proposed. Al x (CuFeMn) 100-x (x= 0, 7.5, and 15 …

Ultra high-strength Mg–Gd–Y–Zn–Zr alloy sheets processed by large-strain hot rolling and ageing

C Xu, MY Zheng, SW Xu, K Wu, ED Wang… - Materials Science and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Ultra high-strength Mg–8.2 Gd–3.8 Y–1.0 Zn–0.4 Zr alloy sheet was prepared by large-strain
hot rolling and subsequent ageing process. The sheet exhibits excellent tensile properties at …

[HTML][HTML] On the interaction of precipitates and tensile twins in magnesium alloys

C Liu, P Shanthraj, JD Robson, M Diehl, S Dong… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Although magnesium alloys deform extensively through shear strains and crystallographic
re-orientations associated with the growth of twins, little is known about the strengthening …

Microstructure evolution and microhardness of Mg-13Gd-4Y–2Zn-0.5 Zr alloy via pre-solution and multi-directional forging (MDF) process

B Dong, X Che, Z Zhang, J Yu, M Meng - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mg-13Gd-4Y–2Zn-0.5 Zr (wt.%) alloy containing high-content long-period
stacking ordered (LPSO) phases is pre-solutioned prior to multi-directional forging (MDF) …

The effect of precipitates on twinning in magnesium alloys

JD Robson, MR Barnett - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how to strengthen against twin mediated deformation is critical for controlling
the mechanical properties and formability of magnesium. One route to strengthening is …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of internal stresses due to precipitates on twin growth in magnesium

JD Robson - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Twinning is an important deformation mode in hexagonal close packed (HCP) metals,
including magnesium alloys. Precipitates are used to provide strengthening in many of these …

Effect of precipitate shape and habit on mechanical asymmetry in magnesium alloys

JD Robson, N Stanford, MR Barnett - Metallurgical and Materials …, 2013 - Springer
Asymmetric yield behavior in tension and compression is a common and usually
undesirable feature of wrought magnesium alloys. To prevent yield asymmetry, it is …