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Abstract
This study investigates the high-temperature tensile behavior of AZ31 magnesium alloy under varying current intensities and directions. At 350 °C, with a strain rate of 1 × 10⁻3 s⁻1 and a peak current density of 50 A/mm2, the alloy demonstrates enhanced superplasticity, increasing its true strain at fracture from 0.88 to 1.23. The height-to-diameter ratio of the expanded region improves from 0.45 (without current) to 0.56 under a two-dimensional current field. SEM, EBSD, and TEM analyses reveal that a favourably oriented pulsed current enhances dislocation mobility, facilitates grain boundary sliding and rotation, and promotes recrystallization, contributing to grain refinement.
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The Journal publishes and disseminates original research in the field of material forming. The research should constitute major achievements in the understanding, modeling or simulation of material forming processes. In this respect ‘forming’ implies a deliberate deformation of material.
The journal establishes a platform of communication between engineers and scientists, covering all forming processes, including sheet forming, bulk forming, powder forming, forming in near-melt conditions (injection moulding, thixoforming, film blowing etc.), micro-forming, hydro-forming, thermo-forming, incremental forming etc. Other manufacturing technologies like machining and cutting can be included if the focus of the work is on plastic deformations.
All materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, glass, wood, fibre reinforced materials, materials in food processing, biomaterials, nano-materials, shape memory alloys etc.) and approaches (micro-macro modelling, thermo-mechanical modelling, numerical simulation including new and advanced numerical strategies, experimental analysis, inverse analysis, model identification, optimization, design and control of forming tools and machines, wear and friction, mechanical behavior and formability of materials etc.) are concerned.