EFFECT OF ALLOYING ELEMENTS ON CORROSION POTENTIAL AND CORROSION PROPAGATION PROCESS OF MULTILAYER ALUMINUM-BRAZED SHEET

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850224
Author(s):  
LONGJUN GUO ◽  
JIHUI WANG ◽  
WENBIN HU ◽  
DEJING ZHOU

The cross-sectional depth microstructure profiles for a multilayer AA4045/AA3003*/AA4045 brazed sheet were observed and determined by focused ion beam-transmission electron microscopy (FIB-TEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). The corrosion propagation of the multilayer brazed sheet in the sea water acidified accelerated test (SWAAT) was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The measured corrosion potentials of different layers of the multilayer aluminum sheet have been carried out according to ASTM G69-97 standard test method. To reveal the effect of the alloying elements on corrosion behavior, the theoretical corrosion potential of the band of dense precipitates (BDP) zone and core materials was also calculated according to the theoretical corrosion potential model. The electrochemical results showed that there were potential differences between the precipitates free zone (PFZ) and BDP zone as well as BDP zone and the core materials. The EIS test and equivalent circuits (EC) suggested that the capacitive time constant at low frequencies correspond to the corrosion of the BDP zone in the form of exfoliation corrosion. The corrosion propagation process could be identified into four stages: the dissolution of the eutectic [Formula: see text]-Al in the re-solidified cladding in the form of pitting corrosion; the corrosion of the primary [Formula: see text]-Al grain boundaries in the form of inter-granular corrosion (IGC); the corrosion of the BDP zone in the form of exfoliation corrosion; and the corrosion of the core material in the form of IGC.

2009 ◽  
Vol 1188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Mezeix ◽  
Christophe Bouvet ◽  
Serge Crézé ◽  
Dominique Poquillon

AbstractMany different sandwich panels are used for aeronautical applications. Open and closed cell structured foam, balsa wood or honeycomb are often used as core materials. When the core material contains closed cells, water accumulation into the cell has to be taken into account. This phenomenon occurs when in service conditions lead to operate in humidity atmosphere. Then, water vapor from air naturally condenses on cold surfaces when the sandwich panel temperature decreases. This water accumulation might increase significantly the weight of the core material. Core with a ventilated structure helps to prevent this phenomenon. Periodic cellular metal (PCM) has been motivated by potential multifunctional applications that exploit their open architecture as well as their apparent superior strength and stiffness: pyramidal, lattice, Kagome truss or woven. One of the drawbacks of these materials is the expensive cost of the manufacturing. Recently, a novel type of sandwich has been developed with bonded metallic fibers as core material. This material presents attractive combination of properties like high specific stiffness, good damping capacity and energy absorption. Metal fibers bonded with a polymeric adhesive or fabricated in a mat-like form consolidated by solid state sintering. Entangled cross-linked carbon fibers have been also studied for using as core material by Laurent Mezeix. In the present study, ventilated core materials are elaborated from networks fibers. The simplicity of elaboration is one of the main advantages of this material. Multifunctional properties are given by mixing different sorts of fibers, by example adding fibers with good electrical conduction to give electrical conductivity properties. In this study network fibers as core material are elaborated using carbon fibers, glass fibers and stainless steel fibers. In aeronautical skins of sandwich panels used are often carbon/epoxy prepreg, so epoxy resin was used to cross-link fibers. The core thickness was chosen at 30 mm and fibers length was chosen at 40 mm. Entanglement, separation of filaments and cross-linking are obtained in a specific blower room. Fibers are introduced in the blower room, compressed air is applied and in same time epoxy resin is sprayed. Indeed one of the sandwich core material properties required is low density, so yarns size need to be decreased by separating filaments. Network fibers are introduced in a specific mould and then are compressed. The density obtained before epoxy spaying is 150 kg/m3. Finally samples are polymerized at 80°C for 2 hours in a furnace under laboratory air. Compressive behavior is study to determinate the influence of fibers natures and the effect of cross-linking. Reproducibility is also checked.


Author(s):  
Cihan Kaboglu

Sandwich structures are popular in applications in which the weight of the component affects the efficiency, especially in the aviation and aerospace industries. This study aims to understand the impact behaviour of sandwich structures with different core materials. Sandwich structures are manufactured with glass fibre reinforced polymer skins and balsa wood, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) core through resin infusion under flexible tools. Three different core materials were tested and compared using the damaged area of the back face of the sample. The effect of the core materials on the mechanical behaviour of the structures is crucial. The results showed that the microstructure of the core materials plays an important role, because althoughthe density of balsa wood is greater than the density of PET and PVC, the structures having PVC and PET as core materials undergo less damage than those having balsa wood as a core material. Keywords: Sandwich composite, impact behaviour, core materials.


2011 ◽  
Vol 306-307 ◽  
pp. 844-847
Author(s):  
Quan Zhou Li ◽  
Xiao Qing Wu

A novel water soluble core material composed of alumina, quartz sand, kaolin, gypsum powder and the solution of binders was prepared. The influence of different mass concentration of Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) binder solution and sodium silicate compounded (SS) binders solution on water soluble performance and compressive strength of the core materials was investigated, respectively. The results show that the compressive strength and solubility rate of the core materials, with the concentration of 30% of SS binders solution, are 1.023MPa and 0.24g/s respectively, which is satisfied for the requirements of Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) process completely.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1751-1772
Author(s):  
MA Battley ◽  
TD Allen

Sandwich composite materials are widely used within the marine industry, particularly as hull panels. Water impact loads, known as slamming, can be very significant for these structures, particularly for high-speed craft. These loadings generate local regions of high transverse shear forces near panel boundaries, which can result in transverse shear failures of core materials. The transient nature of slamming loads can cause stress rates that are high enough to affect the strength of the core material, particularly for polymeric foams. Despite the significant body of work on the constitutive behaviour and failure mechanics of sandwich core materials, there is a lack of understanding of how core materials fail in transverse shear during slamming events. There is also only very limited knowledge of how the core shear strengths measured using standardised, often quasi-static material coupon testing relate to their behaviour in a panel-slamming situation. This paper contributes in two novel areas; controlled experimental characterisation of the failure mechanics of sandwich panels subjected to water slamming to understand and quantify the strength of different polymeric core materials, comparison of the failure modes and transverse shear strength of slam-loaded sandwich panels to predictions from material coupon properties. Core types include low, medium and high elongation polymeric foams. The results demonstrate that the more ductile foams perform better as panel structures under slamming relative to their quasi-static properties compared with the more brittle cores. Prediction of the strength of a panel is shown to be highly dependent on the load distribution and whether the static or dynamic core strength is considered. The results support empirical experience that ductile foams perform well under slamming loads, and that high-elongation materials can perform better in slamming situations than predicted by their quasi-static strengths.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Wu ◽  
Minqing Wang

A modified estimation method for the dynamic mechanical properties of viscoelastic materials via asymmetrical sandwich specimens is presented. In contrast to the traditional vibrating cantilever beam test method (VCBTM), the proposed method allows asymmetrical base beams in sandwich specimens. Based on the complex stiffness method, complex parameters are introduced for general sandwich configurations. Calculation formulas for loss factor and shear modulus of the core material are presented. The effectiveness of this approach is validated numerically and experimentally by analysis of one symmetrical sandwich beam specimen and two specimens with asymmetrical thicknesses and materials. It is shown that dynamic mechanical parameters of the core material can be obtained regardless of sandwiches’ symmetry. The proposed method breaks the symmetrical criteria for sandwich specimens and may provide a wider application to measure viscoelastic materials’ dynamic properties.


2011 ◽  
Vol 415-417 ◽  
pp. 859-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Ping Wu ◽  
Zhao Feng Chen ◽  
Jie Ming Zhou ◽  
Xue Yu Cheng

The VIPs consist of the glass-fiber core material and two types of envelope film. The glass fiber was fabricated by a centrifugal blowing process. The core material was prepared by the wet method. The thermal conductivities of the materials were measured by the heat flow meter. The microstructure of the envelope film was observed by scanning electron microscopy. The porosity ratio and largest pore size diameters of the core materials are 92.27% and 20μm, respectively. The thermal conductivity of the VIP is about 8-10 times higher than that of the core materials. The thickness of type I and II envelope films are 45μm and 400μm, respectively. The thermal conductivities of the type I and type II envelope films are 0.11W/(m•K) and 0.69W/(m•K), respectively. The thermal conductivity of the VIP with type II envelope is higher than that of the VIP with type I envelope, which is attributed to the different structures and thickness of the envelope film.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
Carlos Rocha Gomes Torres ◽  
César R Pucci ◽  
Alessandra B Borges ◽  
Fabiana C Frattes ◽  
JB Sorte de Oliveira

ABSTRACT Background Since bonding to zirconia is still questionable, the aim of this study was to evaluate the bond strength of yttrium-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) to different materials used to manufacture dental cores, employing a universal self-etching adhesive system. Materials and methods Cylinders obtained from blocks of Y-TZP Zirconia were sintered in a high-temperature oven. The surfaces to be bonded were blasted with aluminum oxide, then silica-coated aluminum oxide, and finally cleaned in ultrasonic bath. The specimens were divided into six groups according to the core material tested: Silver alloy (Ag/Sn/Cu, Tecnofix), copper alloy (Cu/Ni/Zn, Goldent LA), core buildup resin (Rebilda DC — VOCO), Y-TZP zirconia (IPS e.max ZirCAD, Ivoclar Vivandent), enamel, and dentin. The zirconia cylinders were bonded to the core substrates using the Futurabond U adhesive system (VOCO) and resinous cement (Bifix QM — VOCO). The specimens were shear tested in a universal testing machine at 1 mm/ min. Data was analyzed using ANOVA and Tukey's test. Results Bond strength in MPa (±SD) for the different materials tested were dentin: (12.80 ± 3.18)a; enamel: (15.13 ± 3.09) ab; resin: (17.20 ± 4.67)ab; copper alloy: (18.93 ± 4.66)bc; silver alloy: (22.86 ± 5.47)c; and zirconia: (23.65 ± 3.64)c. Groups followed by the same letters are not significantly different at p < 0.05. Conclusion The metallic alloys and zirconia core materials showed significantly higher bond strength than those obtained directly on dentin. The core buildup resin bond strength to zirconia is similar to that obtained with enamel and dentin. How to cite this article Frattes FC, de Oliveira JBS, Pucci CR, Borges AB, Torres CRG. Bond Strength of Zirconia to Different Core Materials. World J Dent 2016;7(4):169-174.


1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 1347-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Gupta ◽  
S. Sankaran

Sandwich structures, especially those with honeycomb and grid structures as the core material, are very commonly employed in aircraft structures. There is an increasing use of closed-pore rigid syntactic foams as core materials in sandwich constructions because they possess a number of favourable properties. The syntactic foams, owing to their structure and formation, behave differently under compression compared to other traditionally used core materials. In the present study, therefore, syntactic foam core sandwich constructions are evaluated for their behaviour under compression in both edgewise and flatwise orientations. Further, the work characterises the relative performance of two sets of sandwich materials, one containing glass-epoxy and the other, glass/carbon hybrid-epoxy skins. As non-standard geometry test specimens were involved, only a comparative evaluation was contemplated in this approach. The experiments indicate that the nature of the reinforcement fabric in the skin has a bearing on the test results in edgewise orientation. Thus, the tendency towards initiation of vertical crack in the central plane of the core material, which is a typical fracture event in this kind of material, was found to occur after a delay for the specimens containing the glass fabric in the skin. Attempts are made to establish the correlation between observations made on the test specimen visually during the course of testing and the post-compression microscopic examinations of the fracture features.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (06) ◽  
pp. 1850203
Author(s):  
LONGJUN GUO ◽  
JIHUI WANG ◽  
WENBIN HU ◽  
DEJING ZHOU

The microstructures of AA4045/AA3003Mod./AA4045 aluminum-brazed sheet were observed and determined by stereoscopic digital microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). The corrosion process of the brazed sheet in the exfoliation corrosion (EXCO) solution was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electrochemical noise (EN) techniques. The results showed that the brazed sheet was composed of the Al-Si eutectic zone, the precipitates-free zone (PFZ), the band of dense precipitates zone (BDP) and the core material. With the immersion time increased, the capacitive time constant in EIS plot changed from one time constant through two unclear time constants to two clear time constants, and then went back to two unclear time constants again. The maximum relative energy in energy distribution plot (EDP) changed from small scales through middle scales to large scales, and then went back to middle scales. The corrosion process could be divided into four stages: the dissolution of the eutectic [Formula: see text]-Al in the resolidified clad in the form of pitting corrosion; the corrosion of the primary [Formula: see text]-Al grain boundaries in the form of intergranular corrosion (IGC); the corrosion of the BDP zone in the form of exfoliation corrosion; and the corrosion of the core material in the form of IGC.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 637
Author(s):  
Tomas Astrauskas ◽  
Tomas Januševičius ◽  
Raimondas Grubliauskas

Studies on recycled materials emerged during recent years. This paper investigates samples’ sound absorption properties for panels fabricated of a mixture of paper sludge (PS) and clay mixture. PS was the core material. The sound absorption was measured. We also consider the influence of an air gap between panels and rigid backing. Different air gaps (50, 100, 150, 200 mm) simulate existing acoustic panel systems. Finally, the PS and clay composite panel sound absorption coefficients are compared to those for a typical commercial absorptive ceiling panel. The average sound absorption coefficient of PS-clay composite panels (αavg. in the frequency range from 250 to 1600 Hz) was up to 0.55. The resulting average sound absorption coefficient of panels made of recycled (but unfinished) materials is even somewhat higher than for the finished commercial (finished) acoustic panel (αavg. = 0.51).


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