Thermo-Mechanical Treated High Strength AA-7xxx Aluminium Alloy by Cold and Cryo-Rolling Study their Mechanical Properties Corrosion and Microstructure Correlation

2019 ◽  
Vol 969 ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Y. Phaneendra ◽  
I.N. Niranjan Kumar ◽  
V.V. Ravi Kumar

Thermo-mechanical treatment, in particular, cryo-rolling is a unique technique to produce super high strength AA-7xxx aluminium alloys with ultra-fine grained structure. In order to conduct the rolling at room temperature and cryo-temperature (liquid N2 (-190°C)), the AA-7xxx alloy ingot was rolled from 6mm to 1mm with 85% reduction in thickness. Optical microscopy, XRD, electron microscopy, hardness and tensile testing were conducted on the rolled alloy for understanding the phase changes and evaluating the mechanical properties. The alloy rolled at liquid nitrogen (LN2) exhibits very high strength with reasonable ductility. Corrosion behaviour of AA-7xxx series aluminium alloy various conditions in NaCl (3.5%) solution were investigated. Cold rolled and cryo rolled alloy exhibits better corrosion resistance than that of cast.

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 447-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mächler ◽  
P. J. Uggowitzer ◽  
C. Solenthaler ◽  
R. M. Pedrazzoli ◽  
M. O. Speidel

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Płonka ◽  
M. Lech-Grega ◽  
K. Remsak ◽  
P. Korczak ◽  
A. Kłyszewski

The object of this study was to develop parameter of the die forging process, such as feedstock temperature and to investigate her impact on the structure and mechanical properties of magnesium alloys in different heat treatment conditions. Tests were carried out on a 2,5MN maximum capacity vertical hydraulic press using forgings of sample (model) shapes. Then, based on the results obtained in previous work, research was carried out to develop for items forged from magnesium alloys the parameters of heat treatment to the T5 and T6 condition in the context of achieving possibly homogeneous and fine-grained structure and, consequently, high mechanical properties.


2006 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 865-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongjun Chen ◽  
Qu Dong Wang ◽  
Jianguo Peng ◽  
Chun Quan Zhai

Experiments were conducted both to evaluate the potential for grain refinement, the subsequent mechanical properties at room temperature in samples of AZ31 Mg alloy and also to investigate the relationship between one-step and two-step high ratio extrusion (HRE). The one-step HRE was undertaken using a high extrusion ratio of 70:1 at 250, 300 and 350°C. And the two-step HRE was conducted with an extrusion ratio of 7 for the first step at 250, 300 and 350°C, followed by a second-step extrusion with an extrusion ratio of 10 at 250, 300 and 350°C. The initial grain size in the AZ31 ingot was 100μm and that after one-step HRE became similar to 5μm, after two-step HRE at 250, 300 and 350°C were 2, 4, 7μm, respectively, resulting in superior mechanical properties at ambient temperature. The microstructure of two-step HRE was finer and uniformer than that of one-step HRE and the strength of one-step and two-step HRE were similar, moreover, the elongation of one-step HRE was improved markedly than that of two-step HRE. Dynamic recrystallization and adjacent grain broking during HRE is introduced to explain the effects of one-step and two-step HRE on the microstructure and mechanical properties of AZ31 Mg alloy. The current results imply that the simple HRE method might be a feasible processing method for industry applications, and the multiply steps extrusion are effective to fabricate high strength of fine grained hcp metals.


2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Hilšer ◽  
Stanislav Rusz ◽  
Wojciech Maziarz ◽  
Jan Dutkiewicz ◽  
Tomasz Tański ◽  
...  

<p>Equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) method was used for achieving very fine-grained structure and increased mechanical properties of AZ31 magnesium alloy. The experiments were focused on the, in the initial state, hot extruded alloy. ECAP process was realized at the temperature 250°C and following route Bc. It was found that combination of hot extrusion and ECAP leads to producing of material with significantly fine-grained structure and improves mechanical properties. Alloy structure after the fourth pass of ECAP tool with helix matrix 30° shows a fine-grained structure with average grain size of 2 µm to 3 µm and high disorientation between the grains. More experimental results are discussed in this article.</p>


Metals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 685
Author(s):  
Xiaoqing Jiang ◽  
Shujun Chen ◽  
Jinlong Gong ◽  
Zhenyang Lu

The present study aims to investigate the effect of microstructure and texture on mechanical properties of resistance spot welding of high strength steel 22MnB5 and 5A06 aluminium alloy as a function of welding parameters. The pseudo-nugget zones (NZs) at the steel side have undergone full recrystallisation with a fine-grained ferrite structure containing a small amount of retained austenite and a high hardness of approximately 500 HV, which is a 35% increase in hardness compared to the base material (BM) with fine lath martensitic structure. The NZs at the Al side contain both a recrystallisation texture and shear texture. Higher tensile shear strength with increasing weld time could be linked to the random texture at the Al side. The highest tensile shear strength was achieved at an intermetallic layer thickness of 4 mm.


2011 ◽  
Vol 409 ◽  
pp. 474-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Chan ◽  
J.L. McCrea ◽  
G. Palumbo ◽  
Uwe Erb

Monolithic and multilayered iron electrodeposits were successfully synthesized by the pulse plating electrodeposition method. Electron microscopy and Vickers microhardness measurements were used to investigate the microstructure and mechanical properties of the iron electrodeposits produced. Two types of monolithic iron coatings were produced, one with a coarse grained, columnar structure and the other with an ultra-fine grained structure. Hall-Petch type grain size strengthening was observed in these monolithic coatings. Multilayered iron coatings composed of alternating layers of coarse grained and fine grained structures were also produced. The hardness value of the multilayered coatings falls between the hardness values for the two types of monolithic coatings produced. This study has demonstrated the possibility of applying a multilayered structure design to tailor the microstructure and mechanical properties of electrodeposited iron coatings.


2018 ◽  
Vol 877 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
P.K. Mandal

The cast Al-Zn-Mg 7000 alloy has become one of the most potential structural materials in many engineering fields such as aircraft body, automotive casting due to their high strength to weight ratio, strong age hardening ability, competitive weight savings, attractive mechanical properties and improvement of thermal properties. The cast aluminium alloy has been modified of surface layer through a solid-state technique is called friction stir process (FSP). But basic principle has been followed by friction stir welding (FSW). This process can be used to locally refine microstructures and eliminate casting defects in selected locations, where mechanical properties improvements can enhance component performance and service life. However, some specified process parameters have adopted during experimental works. Those parameters are tool rotation speed (720 rpm), plate traverse speed (80 mm/min), axial force (15 kN), and tool design (i.e., pin height 3.5 mm and pin diameter 3.0 mm), respectively. The main mechanism behind this process likely to axial force and frictional force acting between the tool shoulder and workpiece results in intense heat generation and plastically soften the process material. The specified ratio of rotational speed (720 rpm) to traverse speed (80 mm/min) is considered 9 as low heat input during FSP and its entails low Zn vaporization problem results as higher fracture toughness of aluminium alloy. It is well known that the stirred zone (SZ) consists of refine equiaxed grains produced due to dynamic recrystallization. FSP has been proven to innovatively enhancing of various properties such as formability, hardness and fracture toughness (32.60 MPa√m). The hardness and fracture toughness of double passes AC+FSP aluminium alloy had been investigated by performing Vicker’s hardness measurement and fracture toughness (KIC)(ASTM E-399 standard) tests. Detailed observations with optical microscopy, Vicker’s hardness measurement, SEM, TEM, and DTA analysis have conducted to analyse microstructure and fracture surfaces of double passes FSP aluminium alloy.


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