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To enable broader applications of magnesium alloy sheets, one requirement is to achieve comparable strength-formability balance with that of aluminum-based alloys. Based on the review of recent studies on precipitation hardening of microalloyed magnesium alloys, we propose the usage of age-hardenable alloys to overcome the strength-formability trade-off in magnesium alloy sheets. Precipitation hardening has not been actively used in commercial wrought magnesium alloys because of their poor age-hardening responses. However, recent studies have shown appropriate selection of microalloying elements leads to a substantial enhancement of the kinetics of age-hardening. We found Mg-Ca-X (X = Al, Zn) dilute alloys show promising age-hardening characteristics for bake-hardenable alloy sheets that may be used as a substitute for 6xxx aluminum alloy sheet for weight reduction. Such alloys show excellent room temperature stretch formability, and substantial strengthening to ~240 MPa can be achieved by a short-term aging at low temperatures: 170°C for 20 min.
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The authors thank Dr. Taiki Nakata for provision of Fig. 9c. A part of this work was supported by the Elements Strategy Initiative for Structural Materials (ESISM) of MEXT (Grant Number JPMXP0112101000), JSPS KAKENHI [Grant Number JP18H01756 and JP20K15067] and Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) [Grant Number 12102886].
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Sasaki, T.T., Bian, MZ., Li, Z.H. et al. Toward Development of Strong and Formable Magnesium Alloy Sheets with Bake-Hardenability. JOM 73, 1471–1483 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-04613-1
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