Effects of twin-roll casting process parameters on the microstructure and sheet metal forming behavior of 7050 aluminum alloy

2016 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbin Wang ◽  
Le Zhou ◽  
Yongwen Zhang ◽  
Yuanhua Cai ◽  
Jishan Zhang
2017 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Yuta Kashitani ◽  
Shinichi Nishida ◽  
Junshi Ichikawa ◽  
Hiroto Ohashi ◽  
Naoshi Ozawa ◽  
...  

This paper describes a vertical type twin roll strip casting process for producing aluminum alloy strip of ADC12, A3003 and A7075. Twin roll casting process is able to produce a strip from molten metal directly. Thus this process has a possibility to reduce total cost of sheet making comparing to conventional rolling process. Aluminum alloy ADC12 is a casting material that is used for die casting. A3003 is known as a wrought aluminum alloy for aluminum can body sheet. The A3003 sheet is generally produced by rolling, so it is effective for reducing a process cost to produce the strip by twin roll casting process. Aluminum alloy A7075 has high tensile strength, and it is known as a material for aerospace application. The sheet is manufactured in small quantities comparing to the other sheet aluminum alloy. It is supposed that the demand of high tensile strength aluminum sheet such as A7075 is going to increase for weight saving of structural material. In this study, twin roll casting experiment was performed to produce these three aluminum alloy strip in same experimental conditions. Castability, surface conditions and strip thickness were estimated. It was possible to cast these aluminum alloy strip.


2013 ◽  
Vol 652-654 ◽  
pp. 2397-2403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Fu Li ◽  
Hong Bin Wang ◽  
Fan Lei Meng ◽  
Hong Yang Zhao

In this study, 7050 aluminum alloy strip was produced using the twin-roll casting technique. Microstructures and properties of the cast-rolling 7050 aluminum alloy were investigated by means of optical microscope (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Vickers hardness test. The results indicate that microstructures of cast-rolling 7050 alloy strip are inhomogeneous on the cross section. From the edge to the center, the size of grain decreases gradually and becomes more homogeneous, showing a transition from dendrite grains to equiaxed grains. There are undissolved second phase particles in grains and at grain boundaries. And the dendrite grains and second phase particles can be reduced by solution treatment, and the hardness of the cast-rolling strip can be improved by aging treatment.


2013 ◽  
Vol 690-693 ◽  
pp. 218-221
Author(s):  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Xiao Ming Zhang ◽  
Zhi Yuan Guo ◽  
Yu Qian Wang ◽  
Cheng Gang Li

Effect of secondary cooling on non-oriented electrical steel strips was investigated. The 2.0 mm thick cast strips contain two compositions were produced by twin-roll casting process, cooled in the air or cooled by spraying water. The microstructure was observed by optical microscopy, and EBSD was used to characterize the texture of the cast strips. The results showed that air-cooling cast strips have uniform and equiaxed grains with average size of 250 μm. The microstructure of the water-spraying cast strips compose of most equiaxed grains and a small number of abnormal big grains. At the same time, the secondary cooling rate mildly affects the cast texture strength but has no influence on the texture type.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 4911-4927
Author(s):  
Swagatika Mohanty ◽  
Srinivasa Prakash Regalla ◽  
Yendluri Venkata Daseswara Rao

Product quality and production time are critical constraints in sheet metal forming. These are normally measured in terms of surface roughness and forming time, respectively. Incremental sheet metal forming is considered as most suitable for small batch production specifically because it is a die-less manufacturing process and needs only a simple generic fixture. The surface roughness and forming time depend on several process parameters, among which the wall angle, step depth, feed rate, sheet thickness, and spindle speed have a greater impact on forming time and surface roughness. In the present work, the effect of step depth, feed rate and wall angle on the surface roughness and forming time have been investigated for constant 1.2 mm thick Al-1100 sheet and at a constant spindle speed of 1300 rpm. Since the variable effects of these parameters necessitate multi-objective optimization, the Taguchi L9 orthogonal array has been used to plan the experiments and the significance of parameters and their interactions have been determined using analysis of variance (ANOVA) technique. The optimum response has been brought out using response surfaces. Finally, the findings of response surface method have been validated by conducting additional experiments at the intermediate values of the parameters and these results were found to be in agreement with the predictions of Taguchi method and response surface method.


2012 ◽  
Vol 217-219 ◽  
pp. 1928-1933
Author(s):  
Yu Cheng Zhang ◽  
Tian Yang Han ◽  
Zheng Yi Jiang ◽  
Dong Bin Wei

The process of twin-roll casting including pouring, solidifying, rolling and cooling can be accomplished in a very short time. Consequently, some important process parameters in the twin-roll casting that are difficult to be obtained in experiment can be acquired using numerical simulation. In this paper, a numerical simulation based on a 2D finite element model of vertical twin-roll strip casting of magnesium alloy has been conducted, and the thermal stress fields are significantly discussed. The influences of key process parameters consisting of submerged nozzle depth and nozzle spray angle have been studied. The thermal cracks on the surface of the strip are analysed according to the thermal stress distribution.


2010 ◽  
Vol 102-104 ◽  
pp. 232-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Feng Liu ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Wen Tong Yang ◽  
Jian Hua Wang ◽  
Yong Sheng Zhao

According to the characteristic which is more and difficult to determine about the automotive panel forming factors, based on the dynamic explicit method, taking the typical automobile front fender for example, do the simulation analysis by using of DYNAFORM. On the premise of taking springback factors into account, analog the best stamping process parameters has been optimized from the analysis results after simulation such as sheet metal forming limited drawing(FLD)and sheet metal thinning drawing.


2013 ◽  
Vol 652-654 ◽  
pp. 2427-2431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Su ◽  
G M Xu ◽  
Y H Feng

In this paper, the effect of magnetostatic field on the microstructure and microsegregation of 7075 aluminum alloy strip by twin-roll casting is researched , and the result shows that when no electromagnetic field is applied during the process of roll-casting , the microstructure of 7075 strip is most composed of coarse columnar and dendritic crystal , the direction of grains is equal to roll-casting direction. When the magnetostatic field with 0.13T intensity is applied during the twin-roll casting, the microstructural of strip becomes uniform ,refined and equiaxed at the central zone of strip, and the dendritic crystal at the surficial is disordered and refined significantly.


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