Blister Free Heat Treatment of High Pressure Die-Casting Alloys

2006 ◽  
Vol 519-521 ◽  
pp. 351-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger N. Lumley ◽  
Robert G. O'Donnell ◽  
Dayalan R. Gunasegaram ◽  
Michel Givord
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Die Casting ◽  
Solution Treatment ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Age Hardening ◽  
Process Window ◽  
Microstructural Development ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Die Castings

Conventionally produced high pressure die-cast (HPDC) components are not considered to be heat treatable because gases entrapped during the die-casting process expand during solution treatment causing unacceptable surface blistering. Components may also become dimensionally unstable. Both these effects prevent the heat treatment of die-castings as these phenomena are detrimental to the visual appearance, mechanical properties and utilisation of the component. Recent work has revealed a process window in which HPDC aluminium alloys that are capable of responding to age hardening may be successfully heat treated without encountering these problems. As a result, improvements of greater than 100% in the tensile properties are possible, when compared with the as-cast condition. The new heat treatment schedules are described for HPDC parts of different size and shape, the role of chemistry on ageing is discussed and microstructural development during heat treatment examined†.

THINCASTTM; Providing Strong, Lightweight Castings for Automobiles and Other Applications

2014 ◽  
Vol 217-218 ◽  
pp. 294-301
Author(s):  
Alois Franke ◽  
John L. Jorstad
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Die Casting ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Engineering Properties ◽  
Traditional Process ◽  
Semi Solid ◽  
Die Castings ◽  
New Applications

Aluminium Rheinfelden has improved the competitiveness of semi solid processing by developing a casting process & alloy combination that is capable of ultra thin, ultra light parts having attractive engineering properties without need for full heat treatment. The THINCASTTM rheocasting process, together with Rheinfeldens Magsimal-59 alloy has been demonstrated capable of producing moderate sized castings with only 1-2 mm wall sections, thus providing a 30-50% reduction in traditional-process part weight. THINCASTTM can be adapted to a variety of die casting machines and will enable competitively improving the quality of conventional high pressure die castings as well as creating entirely new applications.

Applications of Squeeze Casting for Automobile Parts

2013 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 887-893
Author(s):  
Pongsak Dulyapraphant ◽  
Ekkachai Kittikhewtraweeserd ◽  
Nipon Denmud ◽  
Prarop Kritboonyarit ◽  
Surasak Suranuntchai
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Squeeze Casting ◽  
Die Casting ◽  
Solution Treatment ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
High Pressure Die Casting ◽  
Heat Treated ◽  
Automotive Parts ◽  
Die Casting Process ◽  
Pressure Die Casting

With an increasing pressure on automotive weight reduction, the demand on the lighter weight automotive components continues to increase. In recent years, squeeze casting processes have been used with different aluminium alloys to produce high integrity automotive parts. In this study, the indirect squeeze casting processes is adopted to cast a motorcycles component originally produced by a high pressure die casting process using aluminium alloy ADC12. To minimize amount of gas porosity inside squeeze casts, concepts of (1) minimization of ingate velocity along with (2) bottom filling pattern during the die filling, and (3) maximization of intensifications casting pressure are applied. Then parts are casted with both conventional high pressure die casting and indirect squeeze casting processes. Comparative evaluation of mechanical properties was made between HPDC casts and squeeze casts both in as-cast and heat treated conditions. Results from the experiment have shown that squeeze casts can pass the blister test at 490 °C for 2.5 hours. Then, squeeze casts are heat treated by solution treatment at 484 °C for 20 minutes and artificial age at 190 °C for 2.5 hours, respectively. This improves UTS of the heat treated squeeze cast to 254.14 MPa with 1.84% of elongation, while the UTS of as cast condition from both processes is not significantly different.

scholarly journals Influence of B and Nb Additions and Heat Treatments on the Mechanical Properties of Cu-Ni-Co-Cr-Si Alloy for High Pressure Die Casting Applications

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 602
Author(s):  
Denis Ariel Avila-Salgado ◽  
Arturo Juárez-Hernández ◽  
Fermín Medina-Ortíz ◽  
María Lara Banda ◽  
Marco Antonio Loudovic Hernández-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Heat Treatment ◽  
High Pressure ◽  
Die Casting ◽  
Hardness Test ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
Heat Treatments ◽  
Dendritic Morphology ◽  
High Pressure Die Casting ◽  
Pressure Die Casting ◽  
Nb Additions

During the high pressure die casting process (HPDC), it is necessary to develop new designs and alloys for the copper plungers. In this research, two alloys Cu-9Ni-1Co-1.6Cr-2Si-1.3Fe-0.25B wt.% (A1) and Cu-9Ni-1Co-1.6Cr-2Si-0.1Fe-0.2Nb wt.% (A2) under different heat treatments (HT) were studied. Optical microscopy technique was applied to reveal the regions of dendritic morphology, also lower Secondary Dendrite Arm Spacing (SDAS); and different grain orientations. The results reveal that the solidification sequence is primary Cu dendrites and secondary intermetallics; heat treatments increase the redistribution of alloying elements in the interdendritic regions. During the heat treatments, some precipitates were found in the grain boundary after aging heat treatments for both alloys, which were determined by X-ray diffraction. Hardness test HRB presented a decrease with the solution heat treatment and an increase with the aging heat treatments proposed for both alloys. Finally, the wear resistances for both alloys were compared with a commercial alloy C17530, with decreased A1 with B additions having the best result in the as-cast condition 4.07 × 10−4 mm3/Nm, while for A2 with Nb additions wear resistance increased, with the best result in the one with aging heat treatment 1.69 × 10−4 mm3/Nm while for the C17530 alloy this was 2.74 × 10−4 mm3/Nm.

High-Pressure Die-Casting Process Modelling Using Neural Networks

2006 ◽  
pp. 182-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Imad Khan ◽  
Saeid Nahavandi ◽  
Yakov Frayman
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Process Parameters ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Die Casting ◽  
Process Condition ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Casting Process ◽  
High Pressure Die Casting ◽  
Die Casting Process ◽  
Pressure Die Casting

This chapter presents the application of a neural network to the industrial process modeling of high-pressure die casting (HPDC). The large number of inter- and intradependent process parameters makes it difficult to obtain an accurate physical model of the HPDC process that is paramount to understanding the effects of process parameters on casting defects such as porosity. The first stage of the work was to obtain an accurate model of the die-casting process using a feed-forward multilayer perceptron (MLP) from the process condition monitoring data. The second stage of the work was to find out the effect of different process parameters on the level of porosity in castings by performing sensitivity analysis. The results obtained are in agreement with the current knowledge of the effects of different process parameters on porosity defects, demonstrating the ability of the MLP to model the die-casting process accurately.

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