Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured 1050/6061 Aluminum Alloy Fabricated by Four-Layer Stack...

An ultrafine grained AA1050/AA6061 Al alloy sheet was successfully fabricated by four-layer stack ARB process. The ARB of AA1050 and AA6061 alloy sheets was performed up to 3 cycles without a lubricant at ambient temperature. The sample fabricated by the ARB was a multi-layer aluminum alloy sheet in which AA1050 and AA6061 layers are alternately stacked. The layer thickness of the each alloy became thinner and elongated to the rolling direction with increasing the number of ARB cycles. The tensile strength increased with the ARB, it reached about 347 MPa which is almost 2.4 times that of the starting material. The grain size decreased with increasing of the number of ARB cycles, became about 190 nm in thickness after 3 cycles. The variation of mechanical properties with the ARB was similar to those of the other ARB processed materials. However, the texture development was different from those of the conventional ARB processed materials.