On the Solid-Fluid Transition Zone in Welding Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Chen ◽  
I. C. Sheng

Equilibrium and energy equations have been developed in describing the solid-fluid transition zone during the melting and solidification of the binary alloys. Due to the existence of the transition region exhibiting both solid and fluid phases at the same material point from continuum point of view, mixture theory was utilized to analyze the region. Unlike the Stefan problem, the latent heat due to the phase change appears as a source term in the heat equation. The molten fluid is treated as a thermoviscous and incompressible fluid, whereas the solid is thermoviscoplastic described by the Bodner-Partom/Walker type of constitutive equations. Thermal mechanical behaviors of the solid and the fluid phases are determined separately because of insignificant mechanical interactions between them. Volume fractions of the phases are obtained according to the equilibrium phase diagram. The simulation process of the transition zone and the welding process was carried out by FEM. The molten fluid motion, the sizes, and the contours of the transition zone were presented.

2017 ◽  
Vol 898 ◽  
pp. 1020-1025
Author(s):  
Fei Cao ◽  
Fen Fen Yang ◽  
Xue Jian Wang ◽  
Hui Jun Kang ◽  
Ya Nan Fu ◽  
...  

Synchrotron X-ray radiography was used to in situ study the diffusion behavior and microstructural evolution of Al/Cu bimetal. The interface diffusion, dendritic/eutectic growth and the formation of intermetallic compounds around the Al/Cu bimetal interface were analyzed. During the isothermal diffusion process, a liquefied transition zone at the interface with a concentration gradient was formed when the Cu concentration exceeded eutectic composition of Al-Cu alloy. During the solidification of transition zone, the growth sequence of α-Al dendrites and eutectic structure were mainly dominated by the variation of Cu concentration and thermal field according to the temperature of the liquidus line of the equilibrium phase diagram. Finally, the transition zone around the interface were identified to be I (α-Al), II (Al+Al2Cu), III (Al2Cu) and IV (Al2Cu, AlCu and Al4Cu9), respectively.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 000230-000234
Author(s):  
Lee Levine

Abstract Wire bonding is a welding process. During both ball and wedge bonding, wire and bond pad are massively deformed between the bond tool and the anvil of the bond pad or substrate. The dominant variables affecting deformation are ultrasonic energy, temperature, bond force and bond time. Deformation exposes new surface material that is clean and has not been exposed to atmospheric contamination and oxidation. As the new wire and bond pad surfaces mix, they form diffusion couples that grow and transform into the intermetallic weld nugget. The initial mixing is not at equilibrium in that it does not initially form the compounds described by the equilibrium phase diagram, but temperature and time very quickly allows diffusion to relax the initial mixture into the equilibrium phase diagram compounds. This paper will discuss the mechanisms behind the formation of ball and wedge bonds.


Computation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Chendi Cao ◽  
Mitchell Neilsen

Dam embankment breaches caused by overtopping or internal erosion can impact both life and property downstream. It is important to accurately predict the amount of erosion, peak discharge, and the resulting downstream flow. This paper presents a new model based on the material point method to simulate soil and water interaction and predict failure rate parameters. The model assumes that the dam consists of a homogeneous embankment constructed with cohesive soil, and water inflow is defined by a hydrograph using other readily available reach routing software. The model uses continuum mixture theory to describe each phase where each species individually obeys the conservation of mass and momentum. A two-grid material point method is used to discretize the governing equations. The Drucker–Prager plastic flow model, combined with a Hencky strain-based hyperelasticity model, is used to compute soil stress. Water is modeled as a weakly compressible fluid. Analysis of the model demonstrates the efficacy of our approach for existing examples of overtopping dam breach, dam failures, and collisions. Simulation results from our model are compared with a physical-based breach model, WinDAM C. The new model can capture water and soil interaction at a finer granularity than WinDAM C. The new model gradually removes the granular material during the breach process. The impact of material properties on the dam breach process is also analyzed.


Metals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 461
Author(s):  
Konrad Kosiba ◽  
Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth ◽  
Sergio Scudino

The phase and microstructure formation as well as mechanical properties of the rapidly solidified Mg67Ag33 (at. %) alloy were investigated. Owing to kinetic constraints effective during rapid cooling, the formation of equilibrium phases is suppressed. Instead, the microstructure is mainly composed of oversaturated hexagonal closest packed Mg-based dendrites surrounded by a mixture of phases, as probed by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. A possible non-equilibrium phase diagram is suggested. Mainly because of the fine-grained dendritic and interdendritic microstructure, the material shows appreciable mechanical properties, such as a compressive yield strength and Young’s modulus of 245 ± 5 MPa and 63 ± 2 GPa, respectively. Due to this low Young’s modulus, the Mg67Ag33 alloy has potential for usage as biomaterial and challenges ahead, such as biomechanical compatibility, biodegradability and antibacterial properties are outlined.


2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 677-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. B. Hannech ◽  
N. Lamoudi ◽  
N. Benslim ◽  
B. Makhloufi

Intermetallic formation at 425°C in the aluminum–copper system has been studied by scanning electron microscopy using welded diffusion couples. Several Al–Cu phases predicted by the equilibrium phase diagram of the elements and voids taking place in the diffusion zone have been detected in the couples. The predominant phases were found to be Al 2 Cu 3 and the solid solution of Al in Cu, α. The growth of the intermetallic layer obeyed the parabolic law.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Sparrow ◽  
G. A. Gurtcheff ◽  
T. A. Myrum

Melting experiments were performed encompassing both pure and impure substances. The pure substances included n-octadecane paraffin and n-eicosane paraffin, while the impure substances were mixtures synthesized from the pure paraffins. The experiments were carried out in a closed vertical tube whose wall was subjected to a step-change increase in temperature to initiate the melting. For each impure substance, supplementary measurements were made of two characteristic temperatures: the temperature T** at which melting of the solid phase first begins and the lowest temperature T* at which the melting can go to completion. For a pure substance, T** = T*. The time-dependent melting results for all the investigated substances, both pure and impure, were well correlated as a function of FoSte**(Gr**)1/8 alone, where the ** signifies the presence of T** in the temperature difference which appears in Ste and Gr. This correlation enables melting rates for impure substances to be determined from melting rates for pure substances. The T** values needed for the implementation of the correlation can be obtained from simple experiments, obviating the need for the complete equilibrium phase diagram.


Author(s):  
Farida Benmouna ◽  
Abdelylah Daoudi ◽  
Fr�d�rick Roussel ◽  
Jean-Marc Buisine ◽  
Xavier Coqueret ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Michael Machado ◽  
Raul Fangueiro ◽  
Daniel Barros ◽  
Luís Nobre ◽  
João Bessa ◽  
...  

Abstract With the recent advances in the additive manufacturing (AM) production technologies, AM is becoming more common in today’s industry, nowadays is a normal practice to use this solution either to test a new prototype or to manufacture a functional product. The increase application is mainly due to significant developments in the production solutions of the AM. These recent developments are resulting in an increase search for new and more efficient production solutions. This search is always focused in producing more efficiently, with a greater variety of materials and produce part with better quality and proprieties. From an industrial point of view, one of the types of additive manufacturing that is increasing the percentage of use is the selective laser sintering (SLS) technologies. Although this process was first used in the mid-80’s, it has shown great developments in the recent years. This evolution of the process allowed it to become a solid solution even if it is highly time consuming, especially when compared with other types of addictive manufacturing. From the several aspects that make the SLS a robust solution is the fact that it offers a consistent solution to produce high complex part with good mechanical properties, and also the ability to use many core materials, from polymers, metal alloy, ceramics or even composites materials. Due to the fact that the production of part using SLS technologies takes a long time, shows the relevance to study the entire process in order to quantify the time spent in each stage a very important step. This study can be conducted with two major goals, in one hand to be able to predict the build time needed to complete a predetermined task, and in other hand, to improve the overall efficiency of the process based on the knowledge acquired in the previous analysis. These two aspects are important because they allow the machine operator to choose the production plan more carefully and also to know all the parameters of the process to make it more efficient. In this paper will be presented a survey of the major stages of a SLS process in order to quantify the time consumed in each one of the stages, and if possible, determine solution to reduce the time spent. To better understand the topic the paper will be divided according to the proprieties and time consumed in each of the elements of the process. In other words, it will be divided accordingly to a machine, laser and material point of view. Furthermore, this paper will be focused in the SLS process and the productions based in a polymeric powder, therefore also containing aspects related to the power source used.


Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih Tso ◽  
Chee Hor ◽  
Gooi Chen ◽  
Chee Kok

The heat induced by viscous dissipation in a microchannel fluid, due to a small oscillating motion of the lower plate, is investigated for the first time. The methodology is by applying the momentum and energy equations and solving them for three cases of standard thermal boundary conditions. The first two cases involve symmetric boundary conditions of constant surface temperature on both plates and both plates insulated, respectively. The third case has the asymmetric conditions that the lower plate is insulated while the upper plate is maintained at constant temperature. Results reveal that, although the fluid velocity is only depending on the oscillation rate of the plate, the temperature field for all three cases show that the induced heating is dependent on the oscillation rate of the plate, but strongly dependent on the parameters Brinkman number and Prandtl number. All three cases prove that the increasing oscillation rate or Brinkman number and decreasing Prandtl number, when it is less than unity, will significantly increase the temperature field. The present model is applied to the synovial fluid motion in artificial hip implant and results in heat induced by viscous dissipation for the second case shows remarkably close agreement with the experimental literature.


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