Texture (cosmology)

Composite number

Engineering

Magnesium alloy

Aerospace engineering

Metallurgy

Materials science

Automotive industry

Precipitation

Magnesium

Computer science

Physics

Formability

Alloy

Image (mathematics)

Specific strength

Artificial intelligence

Composite material

Meteorology

Nature Communications

Although magnesium alloys, as the lightest structural alloys, offer significant potential for automotive applications, their applications remain limited due to their poor formability at room temperature. Since the strategies used for improving formability usually result in a degradation of strength, there are no high strength magnesium alloys showing good formability. Here we report an alloy design concept that can simultaneously provide high strength and good formability. Such designed alloy when subjected to an appropriate processing technique shows a combination of strength and formability that surpasses those of the existing magnesium alloys reported so far. The alloy design concept used in the present study is based on the utilization of alloying elements that can induce precipitation, as well as maximize the segregation of other texture-controlling alloying elements. Such developed alloy is expected to broaden the application of Mg alloy sheets, which are now starting to gain acceptance by automotive industries.

Designing a magnesium alloy with high strength and high formability