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Heterogeneity and Homogeneity in 2/4 N Multilayered Al Fabricated by Accumulative Roll Bonding and Annealing

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Multilayered Al sheets having alternative stacking of 2 N Al (99.21 wt.% purity, N is short for nine) and 4 N Al (99.993 wt.% purity, N is short for nine) with various layer thicknesses from 16 to 1 μm were fabricated by 6 to 10 accumulative roll bonding (ARB) cycles, followed by annealing. The effects of layer thickness and annealing treatment on mechanical properties were studied. In all samples, the grain sizes in the 4 N layers were larger than those in the 2 N layers due to the purity difference. The grain size and mechanical properties saturated after 6 ARB cycles, but the layer thickness gradually decreases with increasing cycles and accordingly, more homogeneous microstructures were obtained with higher cycles. After annealing, heterogeneous structures were retained in 6-cycle sample, while most homogenous structures were observed in 10-cycle sample. Yield-drop phenomenon widely observed in the homogeneous samples disappeared in the heterogeneous 6-cycle sample after annealing at 225 and 250 °C.

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The authors would like to thank the financial support by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grants No. 51671039) and National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB0700403). SG and NT appreciate the support by JST CREST (Grant No. JPMJCR1994), Japan. Project No. 2020CDCGCL006 and 2020CDJDPT001 supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China was also appreciated.

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Jiang, X., Gao, S., Zhang, L. et al. Heterogeneity and Homogeneity in 2/4 N Multilayered Al Fabricated by Accumulative Roll Bonding and Annealing. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 29, 6147–6154 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-05081-5

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