Pure Mg and Mg–Gd alloys with 0.5–2 wt-% gadolinium (Gd) were processed by extrusion and simple shear extrusion (SSE). The strain-rate sensitivity (SRS) was investigated by shear punch testing (SPT) at temperatures ranging from 573 to 723 K and for shear strain rates ranging between 0.016 and 0.13 s−1. The Gd-containing alloys processed by SSE showed small m-values at 573 K, which increased with increasing temperature up to 673 K, and decreased afterwards due to grain growth. The highest SRS index (0.47) was found at 673 K for Mg-2Gd after 4 passes of SSE, coinciding with the finest grain size (2 µm). This implies that the material can behave superplastically via a grain boundary sliding mechanism.
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