The application discloses a preparation process of superplastic
magnesium alloy, which comprises the following steps:
magnesium alloy waste is treated by low-temperature ball milling to prepare nanoscale
powder, the low-temperature ball milling temperature is less than or equal to 200 DEG C, the
powder particle size after ball milling is less than or equal to 100 nm, and
argon gas is introduced to protect the ball milling process to inhibit oxidation; the nanoscale
powder is mixed with 5-8%
mass ratio of Mg-Zn-Ca
alloy powder, densification is carried out by adopting
spark plasma sintering (SPS) at 350-400 DEG C, the
sintering pressure is 20 MPa, the
holding time is 10 min, and the density after
sintering is greater than or equal to 98%; the sintered blank is subjected to equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) treatment, the
extrusion temperature is 300 DEG C, the
extrusion pass is 4 times, the mold channel included angle is 90 DEG, and the superfine-grained
magnesium alloy with an average grain size of 2.1 mu m is obtained; the application realizes grain superfine of 1.5-2.1 mu m through a multi-field
coupling process, activates a non-basal slip
system at
room temperature, the
strain rate sensitivity index m is greater than or equal to 0.35, the elongation at 250 DEG C reaches 280%, and the superplastic
magnesium alloy has high strength and superplastic deformation capacity.