scholarly journals IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF Al-Cu-Mg-Mn ALLOY TUBES THROUGH PLASTIC DEFORMATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Trung-Kien Le ◽  
Dac-Trung Nguyen ◽  
Tuan-Anh Bui

The effect of plastic deformation upon the grain structure and mechanical properties of Al-Cu-Mg-Mn alloy tubes under upsetting was investigated. It was found that plastic deformation techniques such as cold upsetting can overcome the disadvantages of the cutting process, such as the anisotropy of the original material, no grain structure, and not high mechanical properties, while also improving the mechanical properties of the product in local plastic deformation zones by changing the grain and fiber structure of the material. This article presents the results of our research and evaluates the increase of material durability in the tubes’ deformation zones compared with the initial state. In this study Al-Cu-Mg-Mn alloy material had been cutting with turn machine and plastic deformation by upsetting. Microstructures and hardness variations of cut surfaces that are obtained with different processes have been investigated.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Walaa Abdelaziem ◽  
Atef Hamada ◽  
Mohsen A. Hassan

Severe plastic deformation is an effective method for improving the mechanical properties of metallic alloys through promoting the grain structure. In the present work, simple cyclic extrusion compression technique (SCEC) has been developed for producing a fine structure of cast Al-1 wt. % Cu alloy and consequently enhancing the mechanical properties of the studied alloy. It was found that the grain structure was significantly reduced from 1500 µm to 100 µm after two passes of cyclic extrusion. The ultimate tensile strength and elongation to failure of the as-cast alloy were 110 MPa and 12 %, respectively. However, the corresponding mechanical properties of the two pass CEC deformed alloy are 275 MPa and 35%, respectively. These findings ensure that a significant improvement in the grain structure has been achieved. Also, cyclic extrusion deformation increased the surface hardness of the alloy by 49 % after two passes. FE-simulation model was adopted to simulate the deformation behavior of the material during the cyclic extrusion process using DEFORMTM-3D Ver11.0. The FE-results revealed that SCEC technique was able to impose severe plastic strains with the number of passes. The model was able to predict the damage, punch load, back pressure, and deformation behavior.


Author(s):  
Aleksandra Towarek ◽  
Wojciech Jurczak ◽  
Joanna Zdunek ◽  
Mariusz Kulczyk ◽  
Jarosław Mizera

AbstractTwo model aluminium-magnesium alloys, containing 3 and 7.5 wt.% of Mg, were subjected to plastic deformation by means of hydrostatic extrusion (HE). Two degrees of deformation were imposed by two subsequent reductions of the diameter. Microstructural analysis and tensile tests of the materials in the initial state and after deformation were performed. For both materials, HE extrusion resulted in the deformation of the microstructure—formation of the un-equilibrium grain boundaries and partition of the grains. What is more, HE resulted in a significant increase of tensile strength and decrease of the elongation, mostly after the first degree of deformation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 134-146
Author(s):  
Stanislav Rusz ◽  
Ondřej Hilšer ◽  
Stanislav Tylšar ◽  
Lubomír Čížek ◽  
Tomasz Tański ◽  
...  

The technology of structure refinement in materials with the aim of achieving substantial mechanical properties and maintaining the required plasticity level is becoming increasingly useful in industrial practice. Magnesium alloys are very progressive materials for utilization in practice thanks to their high strength-to-weight ratios (tensile strength/density). The presented paper analyses the effect of the input heat treatment of the AZ31 alloy on the change of structure and strength properties through the process of severe plastic deformation (SPD), which finds an increasing utilization, especially in the automotive and aviation industry. For the study of the influence of the SPD process (ECAP method) on the properties of the AZ31 alloy, two types of thermal treatment of the initial state of the structure were selected. The analysis of the structure of the AZ31 alloy was performed in the initial state without heat treatment and subsequently after heat treatment. In the next part, the influence of the number of passes on the strengthening curves was evaluated. Mechanical properties of the AZ31 alloy after ECAP were evaluated by hardness measurement and completed by structure analysis.


2014 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
pp. 77-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maroš Martinkovič ◽  
Peter Pokorný ◽  
Petra Bodišová

Final properties of plastic deformed parts of workpieces are affected by production technological processes. Therefore it is needful to know detailed structure changes of plastic deformed material caused by machining - grinding, drilling etc. Friction of tool to work surface caused one of three areas of plastic deformation in cutting zone. It has great influence to quality of work surface and local mechanical properties of surface layer of workpiece. Influence of drill wear to local plastic deformation in deformation zone around the surface of drilled holes was investigated. Two types of cutting tools were used: high speed steel drill IZAR HSSCO with diameter 6,0 mm surface hardened by boriding and the same one without boride layer. Standard cutting parameters were used. During the machining process, axial component of cutting force and torque were observed. The work piece was bulk from carbon steel Ck45 (1.0503). Wear of the tool was estimated as a wide of wear on tool flank. The local strain in analysed place of probes on their sections was obtained by stereological measurement of degree of grain boundaries orientation, which is proportional to grain boundaries deformation degree. Estimation of grain boundary orientation degree leads to determination of local plastic deformation in arbitrary place of workpiece. These results lead to detailed analysis of material structure changes caused by drilling from which local mechanical properties result.


Author(s):  
Nataliya Kalinina ◽  
Tetyana Nosova ◽  
Stella Mamchur ◽  
Nataliya Tsokur ◽  
Nikita Komarov

The effect of modification with dispersed compositions on the grain structure and mechanical properties of industrial aluminum alloys has been studied. Aluminum alloys of the Al-Si, Al-Mg-Sc, Al-Cu-Mn systems were modified with dispersed Mg2Si powder with a particle size of up to 200 nm. The amount of modifier to be added to the melt is calculated. The physicochemical properties of dispersed Mg2Si have been studied. Melting of the AMg6, 1570, 2219, AK9ch alloys in the initial state and with the treatment of Mg2Si melts have been carried out. The action of insoluble applications, isomorphic to aluminum, the similarity of the influence of soluble elements holds only when the amount of insoluble addition exceeds the number of crystals formed arbitrarily under the same conditions. Thus, with an increase in the amount of insoluble addition, in particular silicon carbide particles, the grain size first decreases and then remains constant. The mechanism of the influence of dispersed particles of magnesium silicide on the formation of the structure of hypoeutectic aluminum alloys during crystallization is that their bulk is pushed out by the crystallization front into the liquid phase and participates in the refinement of the structural components of the alloy. To determine the optimal amount of silicon carbide modifier, industrial melting and testing were performed on specimens that underwent heat treatment according to the T6 mode (quenching and artificial aging). The quality of cast aluminum alloys during modification depends on many factors: the nature of the dispersed phase, the temperature of the melt, and the modes of its mixing with the introduction of particles. Dependences of the particle size and the amount of the modifier on the mechanical properties of the alloys have been established. The mechanism of interaction of the modifier with aluminum melt during crystallization has been established. In industrial experiments, the most effective size of SiC particles for increasing the σm of the AK9ch alloy from 115 to 260 MPa in the as-cast state has been established. The optimal content of Mg2Si (0.10 %) for increasing the σm of aluminum alloys has been determined.


2017 ◽  
Vol 743 ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny N. Moskvichev ◽  
Vladimir V. Skripnyak ◽  
Dmitry V. Lychagin ◽  
Vladimir A. Krasnoveikin

In this article, the effect of a severe plastic deformation (SPD) achieved by groove pressing (GP) on the grain structure and mechanical properties of a rolled sheet Al-Mg alloy was investigated. The study of the microstructure of the samples before and after processing was carried out by means of electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD). The mechanical properties of the samples were experimentally studied under uniaxial tension in quasi-static conditions, and microhardness testing was implemented. It was found that the conventional yield strength and ultimate tensile strength increase by the factor of 1.4 and 1.5, respectively; and the microhardness increases by approximately 2.7 times after four machining sequences of the rolled sheet alloy. A bimodal grain structure, consisting of two grain types with particular features, is formed in the samples after four machining sequences of GP.


2009 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
V. Anil Kumar ◽  
M.K. Karthikeyan ◽  
Rohit Kumar Gupta ◽  
P. Ramkumar ◽  
P.P. Sinha

Severe plastic deformation processes (SPD) are gaining importance as advanced materials processing techniques and hold immense potential in obtaining ultra fine-grained high strength materials. Among the SPD techniques, Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) has its own merits to produce materials with ultra fine grains in bulk with better mechanical properties. The material deforms with high level of plastic strain inside the channel resulting in grain refinement of the output material with improvement in mechanical properties. A very viable die configuration was conceptualized and die was made with 1200 channel angle. Processing of 25 mm dia. of Al alloy AA2219 at room temperature was successfully carried out and grain refinement was observed. The mechanism of grain refinement has been studied using optical and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). It was observed that low energy dislocation structure (LEDS) forms concurrently with sub-grain structure due to dislocation rearrangements, which provide stability to the evolving sub-grain structure. Dislocation mobility is hindered by the presence of precipitates and / or intermetallic dispersoids present in the matrix and results in presence of dislocations in grain interiors. The pile up of dislocations at intermetallic dispersoids was confirmed from the dark field TEM micrographs. Present paper describes the experimental procedure and followed to attain severe plastic deformation through ECAP. Increase in hardness as well as refinement in the grain size after 5-passes have been discussed in light of extensive optical and TEM. The mechanisms of grain refinement to achieve nano-grained structure and strengthening accrued from the grain refinement through ECAP has been discussed.


Author(s):  
V.I. Bolshakov ◽  
Alexander Kalinin

The state of the problem of grinding the grain structure and improving the mechanical properties of low-alloy structural steels has been studied. The state of the problem of grain structure refinement and improving the mechanical properties of low-alloy structural steels has been studied. The role of nanodispersed additives is reduced to the creation of additional artificial crystallization centers in the melt. They must be consistent with the critical radiuses of the embryos. According to our calculations, for the grinding of primary austenite grains in castings, the size of the introduced particles should be 40–50 nm. Output and modified castings of 09G2 and 09G2S steels were subjected to severe plastic deformation by equal-channel angular pressing followed by low-temperature annealing at 350 °C. In the initial state, cast steels 09G2 and 09G2S had a ferrite-pearlite structure with an average primary austenite grain size of 30 μm; after modification and deformation, the grain size was 10 μm. After quenching and cooling in water, the structure has changed insignificantly - ferritic-reed, with an average grain size of ~ 8...10 microns. After cooling the quenched samples in a solution of 20 % NaCl in water, the structure of packet martensite was obtained. In the initial state, the studied steels have insufficiently high property values: microhardness Нμ up to 3000 MPa, yield point σ 0,2 up to 800 MPa. When quenching in water, the hardness somewhat increases, the most significant increase is observed when the samples are cooled in a NaCl solution. Due to the significant grinding of martensite crystals, accelerated cooling provides a greater increase in hardness. A nanodispersed powder of titanium carbonitride Ti (CN) with a fraction of 50...100 nm was obtained by the method of plasma-chemical synthesis, the process technology was developed. Intensive plastic deformation of 09G2 and 09G2S steel castings was carried out. The structure and properties of steels before and after treatments have been studied. As a result of the combination of hardening methods, the grain size of the steels was reduced by 3 times and the yield strength increased from 3000 to 4000 MPa. Nanodispersed powder of titanium carbonitride Ti (CN) with a fraction of 50...100 nm was obtained by the method of plasma chemical synthesis, and a process technology was developed. Intensive plastic deformation of castings of 09G2 and 09G2S steels was carried out. The structure and properties of steels before and after treatments were studied. As a result of a combination of hardening methods, grinding of steel grains by 3 times and increasing the yield strength from 3000 to 4000 MPa was achieved


BioResources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 5110-5121
Author(s):  
Ulrike Käppeler ◽  
Jennes Hünniger ◽  
André Hofmann ◽  
Andrea Berlich ◽  
Lutz Engisch

During the embossing process, a fiber sandwich is compressed between embossing tools. The use of ultrasound causes a short-term increase in the material temperature in addition to causing plastic deformation. The combination of the material compression and an increase in material temperature leads to structural changes, which can be observed by the change in mechanical properties of the cardboard. This work investigated the influence of an ultrasonically induced temperature increase on the structural changes of cardboard. Using three-parameter combinations, different temperature levels were achieved with a material densification of less than 5%. Subsequently, the samples were subjected to selected physical and visual analyses to characterize the change in the fiber structure. With the increase of 124 ºC material temperature there was a decrease of about 15% in the splitting resistance and 10% in the bending stiffness.


2020 ◽  
pp. 230-235
Author(s):  
A.A. Vasil’ev ◽  
S.P. Stetsenko ◽  
R.L. Vasilenko ◽  
D.G. Malykhin ◽  
P.I. Stoyev ◽  
...  

Studies were made into the effect of severe plastic deformation on the mechanical properties, structure, and texture of high-purity cast beryllium. For the first time, angular pressing of high-purity cast beryllium was carried out at temperatures of 600 and 500 °C. It is shown that the degree of grain refinement during angular pressing into a strip reaches a significant value. In a single deformation cycle, the grain is crushed from 3 mm down to 10 μm. Temperature dependences of the mechanical properties of the material of extruded billets in the initial state and after recrystallization annealing at a temperature of 650 °C for one hour were studied. It has been established that the best mechanical properties are shown by the samples of material deformed at 600 °C with subsequent annealing at 650 °C for an hour.


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