Effects of Quenching Cooling Rate on Residual Stress and Mechanical Properties of a Rare-Earth Wrought Magnesium Alloy

To investigate the effect of quenching rate on microstructure, residual stress (RS) and mechanical properties of a rare-earth wrought magnesium alloy Mg-Gd-Y-Zr-Ag-Er, RS in 20 °C water quenching (WQ (20 °C)), 100 °C water quenching (WQ (100 °C)) or air cooling (AC) conditions were measured and compared with the simulation results, corresponding mechanical properties and microstructure in quenching and aging state were studied. The decrease of quenching rate has little effect on the grain size but makes the twinning disappear, precipitates increase and the texture weakened, leading to easier brittle fracture after aging. WQ (100 °C) is the best quenching condition in this study, with a significant decline in RS and only 4.9% and 3.7% decrease in yield stress (YS) and hardness compared with WQ (20 °C). The results make it feasible to invent an appropriate quenching method of greatly reducing RS while maintaining mechanical properties. The research conclusions would be beneficial to the application of the alloy.

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