Evaluation of mechanical properties and structure of multilayered Al/Ni composites produced by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process

Multilayered Al/Ni composites were produced by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process using Al 1060 and commercial Ni foils. In this process it was observed that nickel layers necked and fractured as accumulative roll bonding passes increased. After six ARB passes, a multilayered Al/Ni composite with homogeneously distributed fragmented nickel layers in aluminum matrix was produced. Structure and mechanical properties of these multilayer composites were evaluated at different passes of ARB process. During ARB, it was observed that as the strain increased with the number of passes, the strength, microhardness and elongation of produced composites increased as well. In addition, enhancement of the strength was shown to be higher than the tensile strength of Al/Al and Al/Cu multilayered composites produced by ARB process in the previous works by the same authors. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.