Thermal Stability and Mechanical Properties of 5483 Al Alloy Processed by ECAP

Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) is one of the methods which allows to obtain ultrafine-grained and nanocrystalline metallic materials. It is well known that microstructure of materials processed by ECAP in not very stable. There were published many experimental and theoretical evidences of this fact obtained by various methods such as microstructure observations, properties measurement and computer modeling. The aim of presented paper was to investigate the thermal stability of microstructure and mechanical properties of the Al 5483 alloy processed by ECAP. As a result of performed investigations it was concluded that accumulated plastic deformation has no influence on the thermal stability of Al 5483 alloy processed by ECAP. It was also found that properly chosen parameters of ECAP and subsequent annealing allows to produce materials with high strength and plasticity.