1 School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China 2 College of Mechanics and Materials, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
In order to guide a reasonable application of the bulk ultrafine-grained industrial pure iron, a serious of ultrafine-grained pure iron samples with different microstructures were fabricated by multi-passes ECAP and heat-treatment, and their microstructures and pitting corrosion behaviour were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electrochemical polarization and impedance spectroscopy (EIS) techniques, respectively. Results show that:with the increase of ECAP passes, lath-shaped structure with high dislocation density transforms into equiaxed grains with low dislocation density; the dislocation density decreases and the high-angle grain boundaries increase, after the annealing treatment. ECAP passes have less effect on the self-passivation of pure iron, and its open circuit potential (OCP) and polarization resistance are less changed; the pitting corrosion resistance of the ECAPed pure iron is related to the ECAP passes:the pitting potential first decreases and then increases with the increase of ECAP passes; the self-passivation property and pitting corrosion resistance of the ECAPed pure iron are improved after the annealing heat-treatment, the OCP, polarization resistance and pitting potential values increase obviously.
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