Preparation method for sample applicable to EBSD analysis of Al and Al alloy

Abstract

The invention provides a preparation method of a sample applicable to EBSD analysis of Al and an Al alloy. According to the method, a metal sheet with a diameter of 3 mm and a thickness of 0.5 mm is cut from a metal block by using an electrospark wire-electrode cutting method and is then separately ground by using sand paper No. 320, sand paper No. 800 and sand paper No. 2000 so as to gradually thin the metal sheet to a thickness of 200 [mu]m; corroding the metal sheet by using a double-jet etching method until a shiny surface appears; and then placing the sample into an ion milling instrumentfor ion beam polishing so as to remove corrosives and corrosion marks on the surface of the sample, thereby preparing an Al or Al alloy sample for EBSD analysis. The method is convenient and simple to operate, low in preparation cost and large in a polishing range, can be implemented by using preparation equipment for transmissions without purchasing of extra instruments, has good versatility, and is applicable to preparation of EBSD samples from all kinds of Al and Al alloys and other metal materials.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for preparing a sample for Al and Al alloy EBSD analysis, which belongs to the field of metal material microstructure analysis, and specifically relates to a method for preparing a sample for EBSD by using electric spark wire cutting, mechanical grinding, double jet corrosion and ion thinning. Process for analyzing Al and Al alloy samples. Background technique [0002] Al and Al alloys have low density and good corrosion resistance, and are widely used in human daily life, especially in aerospace and automotive fields. With the development of science and technology, people put forward higher performance requirements for Al and Al alloys, and the research and development of advanced Al and Al alloys has become a hot spot in the field of materials. Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) is an advanced material characterization method. It can perform fast EBSD scanning on the surface of the sample through the automatic ...

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Problems solved by technology

Electrolytic polishing has great limitations and is more suitable for pure Al. When corroding Al alloys, it is easy to cause the peeling of the precipitated phase in the alloy, leaving deep corrosion marks; ion beam polishing requires a special instrument-ion beam Polishing instrument, currently this kind of instrument is expensive and not popular, and most of them are early models, the polishing range is very small, only a few hundred μm × hundreds of μm, making it unsuitable for coarse-grained Al and Al alloys , and the consumables required in its use are expensive, so the experimental cost is high

Vibration polishing still belongs to the scope of mechanical polishing, which can reduce the residual stress on the surface. However, because Al and Al alloys, especially Al, are very soft, it is difficult to remove small scratches on the sample surface by mechanical polishing, which affects the analysis effect of EBSD.

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