Low Temperature Superplasticity in a Severely Rolled Sheet of an Al-4.2Mass%Mg Alloy

Superplasticity at relatively low temperatures around 573K has been investigated a severely rolled sheet of an Al-4.2mass%Mg alloy. It was already found that fine recrystallized grains of about 6μm was gotten by annealing for 120s at 573K in a salt bath for the severely rolled sheet. The maximum elongation to failure of 208% is obtained at 563K and 1.4×10 -3 s -1 at a higher heating rate of 5Ks -1 , though the sheet has a small thickness of only 0.1mm. It is suggested from analyses of stress and fracture surface that the elongation for 0.57Ks -1 and 5Ks -1 is attained by different mechanisms.