Finite Element Simulation of Heat Transfer during Cryogenic Asymmetric Sheet Rolling of Aluminum Alloys

2016 ◽  
Vol 716 ◽  
pp. 692-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Pesin ◽  
Denis Pustovoytov

Aluminum and its alloys are widely used as structural materials in aerospace, automotive and other industries due to low density and high specific strength. Efficient way to increase strength and other properties of aluminum alloys is to form an ultra fine grain structure using severe plastic deformation methods. Cryogenic asymmetric sheet rolling under liquid nitrogen temperature is a process of severe plastic deformation that can be used to improve the aluminum alloys structure and properties. Prediction of sheet temperature during plastic deformation is very important. The temperature of sheet is changed due to the conversion of mechanical work of deformation into heat through sliding on contact surfaces. This paper presents the results of the finite element simulation of heat transfer during cryogenic asymmetric sheet rolling of aluminum alloy 6061. The effect of thickness reduction, rolling velocity and friction coefficient on the deformation heating and temperature field of aluminum alloy 6061 was found. The results of investigation could be useful for the development of the optimal treatment process of aluminum alloys by cryogenic severe plastic deformation to obtain the ultra fine grain structure and high strength properties.

2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 410-415
Author(s):  
A.T. Vijayashakthivel ◽  
T.N. Srikantha Dath ◽  
B. Ravishankar

Strengthening the engineering material through Severe Plastic Deformation and associated structural refinement is an established practice. Among the Severe Plastic Deformation process, Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) assumes a significant place. In this, it is possible to attain even ultra fine grain (UFG) structure through high deformation in bulk material working mode. However ECAPed material suffers lack of ductility, structural inhomogenity and even thermodynamically unstable structure, as evidenced in the published literature on ECAP of copper. The present study on ECAP of commercial purity copper aimed to attain a structure of higher hardness by shedding little ductility is deviated from the past work; in this, commercial quality copper is ECAPed at 3000 C with a die geometry channel angle of 1100 and corner angle of 200 necessitating less local/working stress. During certain number of passes (six passes), the material experiences higher hardness with fair amount of ductility. The material does not exhibit any further strengthening beyond six passes, which is possibly due to dislocations annihilation/recovery. The increased strength and loss of ductility of the material results in degrading the material when it undergoes tenth pass.


2020 ◽  
Vol 835 ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Gehan A. Abd El Raouf ◽  
N. El Mahallawy ◽  
M.K. Shoukry

Cyclic extrusion compression (CEC) is one of the well-known techniques in metal forming processes under the severe plastic deformation process (SPD) in which an ultra-large plastic strain is imposed on a bulk material in order to make ultra-fine grained (UFG) metals, alloys and composites. In this work, the mechanical properties of the aluminum alloy (6061) before and after CEC process were examined. A special CEC die was design and fabricated for the present work which achieved an effective plastic strain of about 0.62 after each separate cycle of CEC. The microstructure was effectively refined with increasing the number of CEC cycles as the grain size was reduced from ≈250μm to ≈30 μm after 6 cycles of CEC. The mechanical properties were tremendously increased in comparison with those of as cast and annealed condition. The micro-hardness increased from 25 Hv to 56 Hv, while the yield and the ultimate tensile strengths increased from 60 MPa to 198 MPa and 85 MPa to 204 MPa respectively, the ductility increased from 2.97% to 4.6% with the number of CEC cycles increasing up to six cycles.


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.


2010 ◽  
Vol 667-669 ◽  
pp. 925-930
Author(s):  
S.V. Krymskiy ◽  
Elena Avtokratova ◽  
M.V. Markushev ◽  
Maxim Yu. Murashkin ◽  
O.S. Sitdikov

The effects of severe plastic deformation (SPD) by isothermal rolling at the temperature of liquid nitrogen combined with prior- and post-SPD heat treatment, on microstructure and hardness of Al-4.4%Cu-1.4%Mg-0.7%Mn (D16) alloy were investigated. It was found no nanostructuring even after straining to 75%. Сryodeformation leads to microshear banding and processing the high-density dislocation substructures with a cell size of ~ 100-200 nm. Such a structure remains almost stable under 1 hr annealing up to 200oC and with further temperature increase initially transforms to bimodal with a small fraction of nanograins and then to uniform coarse grained one. It is found the change in the alloy post–SPD aging response leading to more active decomposition of the preliminary supersaturated aluminum solid solution, and to the alloy extra hardening under aging with shorter times and at lower temperatures compared to T6 temper.


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (06n07) ◽  
pp. 1621-1626
Author(s):  
HYOUNG SEOP KIM

The technique of severe plastic deformation (SPD) enables one to produce metals and alloys with an ultrafine grain size of about 100 nm and less. As the mechanical properties of such ultrafine grained materials are governed by the plastic deformation during the SPD process, the understanding of the stress and strain development in a workpiece is very important for optimizing the SPD process design and for microstructural control. The objectives of this work is to present a constitutive model based on the dislocation density and dislocation cell evolution for large plastic strains as applied to equal channel angular pressing (ECAP). This paper briefly introduces the constitutive model and presents the results obtained with this model for ECAP by the finite element method.


JOM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 2731-2738 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Zhukov ◽  
V. Promakhov ◽  
S. Vorozhtsov ◽  
A. Kozulin ◽  
A. Khrustalyov ◽  
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