Effect of eutectic phase on damping and mechanical properties of
as-cast Mg-Ni hypoeutectic alloys
as-cast Mg-Ni hypoeutectic alloys
(State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China)
Abstract: Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) was applied to systematically investigate the low frequency damping properties of as-cast hypoeutectic Mg-Ni alloys. The results show that the as-cast hypoeutectic Mg-Ni alloys exhibit high damping capacities. The strain amplitude dependent damping curve has its own special characteristic, in which the damping is strongly related to the strain amplitude. The effect of the eutectic phase on damping and the mechanical properties of as-cast hypoeutectic Mg-Ni alloys were also discussed in detail.
Key words: Mg-Ni hypoeutectic alloys; strain amplitude dependence; damping properties; mechanical properties; eutectic phase