The combined effects of the reduction ratio and annealing conditions during cold rolling were investigated for the texture and anisotropy of an EN AW-8011A aluminium alloy. To characterize the ...microstructural and textural differences, a scanning electron microscope with electron back-scattered diffraction was used. To achieve low anisotropy, the three key factors of texture were exposed: a low fraction of deformed grains according to the average grain misorientation, a large amount of random texture components and the equivalent ratio between deformed and recrystallised texture components. The results of crystallographic texture analysis and anisotropy values revealed that the higher ratio of total cold deformation (cold rolling reduction) and the higher ratio of cold deformation after the intermediate annealing were more favourable for the final continuous annealing in terms of decreasing anisotropy. In contrast, the lower ratio of the cold deformation resulted in lower anisotropy when implementing batch annealing.
The influence of chemical composition and heat treatment on the mechanical properties and formability of the selected commercial aluminium alloy EN AW 5454 was investigated. The main properties of ...alloy 5454 from the AA 5xxx series are very good corrosion resistant and has good formability. From the cast slab a 50 mm thick slice was taken in the width cross section in the slab centre. One half of the slice was homogenised for 10 hours at a temperature of 530 °C. The cast and homogenised samples were investigated using light and scanning electron microscopy. For the study of the influence of the heat treatment, samples in the as-cast state were annealed in the laboratory furnace at a temperature of 530 °C for 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 hours. To study the influence of chemical composition, four different samples were prepared: the first without additions, the second with an addition of 1 wt% Mn, the third with 3 wt% Mg and the fourth with an addition of both elements, Mn and Mg. The XRF analyses confirmed the desired chemical composition of all four produced alloys. Half of each alloy’s sample was homogenised at the same temperature and time as the base alloy in the as-cast state. The hot deformation behaviour of the different alloys was investigated using cylindrical hot compression tests performed on a Gleeble 1500D thermo-mechanical simulator. By comparing flow curves a high influence of the thermo-mechanical parameters on the alloy formability can be seen. The alloy has good workability and with the addition of Mn and Mg, the stress values are higher than those of the base alloy.
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