In this work, a systematic analysis of the hot deformation mechanism and a microstructure characterization of an as-cast single α-phase Mg-4.5 Li-1.5 Al alloy modified with 0.2% TiB addition, as a grain refiner, is presented. The optimized constitutive model and hot working terms of the Mg-Li alloy were also determined. The hot compression procedure of the Mg-4.5 Li-1.5 Al + 0.2 TiB alloy was performed using a DIL 805 A/D dilatometer at deformation temperatures from 250 °C to 400 °C and with strain rates of 0.01-1 s-1. The processing map adapted from a dynamic material model (DMM) of the as-cast alloy was developed through the superposition of the established instability map and power dissipation map. By considering the processing maps and microstructure characteristics, the processing window for the Mg-Li alloy were determined to be at the deformation temperature of 590 K-670 K and with a strain rate range of 0.01-0.02 s-1.

Center of 3D Printing Protolab Department of Machining Assembly and Engineering Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering VSB Technical University Ostrava 17 listopadu 2172 15 708 00 Ostrava Poruba Czech Republic

Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Silesian University of Technology 44 100 Gliwice Poland

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