Solute strengthening of basal slip in Mg alloys

Strengthening of basal slip could enhance formability of magnesium by decreasing the ratio of pyramidal to basal critical resolved shear stress (P/B CRSS ratio). Here solute strengthening of basal slip is predicted for a wide range of solutes as a function of temperature and solute concentration at experimental strain rates using a recently-developed parameter-free model. The model is simplified by approximating the solute/dislocation...