中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 29 No. 9 September 2019 |
（1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China;
2. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China）
Abstract:The effect of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) on the microstructure and mechanical properties of 6063 aluminum alloy profile during porthole die extrusion was studied through experiment and simulation. The grain morphology was observed by means of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) technology. The results show that, at low ram speeds, increasing the ram speed caused an increase in DRX fraction due to the increase of temperature and strain rate. In contrast, at high ram speeds, further increasing ram speed had much less effect on the temperature, and the DRX faction decreased due to high stain rates. The microhardness and fraction of low angle boundaries in the welding zones were lower than those in the matrix zones. The grain size in the welding zone was smaller than that in the matrix zone due to lower DRX fraction. The decrease of grain size and increase of extrudate temperature were beneficial to the improvement of microhardness.
Key words: 6063 aluminum alloy; porthole die extrusion; dynamic recrystallization; microstructure; mechanical properties
