新SIMA法制备铝合金3A21半固态坯料

利用有限元模拟软件模拟不同路径下等径角挤压过程,分析材料等效应变分布情况,通过等径角挤压实验、半固态等温处理实验、金相显微镜、金相检验软件系统等实验方法和分析设备,研究铝合金3A21半固态坯料显微组织晶粒尺寸同等效应变的关系,分析不同工艺参数对晶粒等积圆直径和形状系数的影响。结果表明,随着材料经过ECAE后等效应变的增大,半固态坯料晶粒尺寸减小;随着保温时间的延长,晶粒尺寸增大、圆整度增加。     

大塑性变形的AM60镁合金半固态等温处理研究

为了制备晶粒细小且球化程度高的的AM60镁合金半固态坯料,对铸态和等径道角挤压态的AM60镁合金半固态等温处理过程进行了研究.借助金相显微镜对AM60镁合金铸坯和等径道角挤压后的铸坯在半固态等温处理中的微观组织演变进行了观察.研究结果表明:对于AM60镁合金,直接等温处理获得的半固坯晶粒很粗大,其平均晶粒尺寸都在100μm以上,晶粒球化效果不理想,很难获得合格的半固态坯;新SIMA法是一种非常理想制备AM60镁合金半固态坯的方法,利用该方法制备的AM60半固态坯的微观组织晶粒十分细小,平均晶粒尺寸在8～22μm,晶粒球化程度高;随着保温时间的延长,新SIMA法制备的AM60半固态坯的微观组织出现长大现象;随着等温处理温度的升高,固相晶粒的平均尺寸先增加后减小,晶粒球化程度越来越高.     

等径角挤压道次对SiC_p/Al复合材料显微组织的影响

为改善超高强度SiCp/Al复合材料的塑性,以Bc路径对喷射沉积SiCp/7090Al（SiC颗粒体积分数15%,名义尺寸10μm）复合材料进行等径角挤压变形,研究了复合材料显微组织和力学性能的演变规律.结果表明：经过4个道次变形后,获得等轴晶粒,尺寸大约为400 nm;SiC颗粒在剪切应力作用下被破碎,尺寸约2μm;...     

镁合金ZK60-RE半固态坯的微观组织演变

采用常规铸造法和等径道角挤压分别制备了镁合金ZK60-RE半固态坯;用金相显微镜研究了2种半固态坯料在等温热处理过程中的微观组织演变.结果表明:与传统铸造方法制备的半固态坯相比,采用等径道角挤压制备的半固态坯的晶粒细小、圆整,适合于半固态成形.在等温热处理过程中,2种坯料晶粒粗化的机制是合并长大和Ostwald长大.铸...     

液相线模锻法制备ZK60-RE镁合金半固态组织演变

给出了液相线模锻法制备ZK60-RE镁合金半固态坯料的实验方法和工艺参数,并研究了该方法制备的ZK60-RE镁合金在半固态等温热处理过程中的微观组织演变.结果表明:利用液相线模锻法可以制备半固态ZK60-RE镁合金坯料,半固态ZK60-RE镁合金坯料在保温时间较短的半固态等温热处理过程中能形成晶粒细小、晶粒粗化速度较为缓慢的球晶组织,晶粒在600℃保温15 min、610℃保温3 min和618℃保温0 min时分别达到最小,最小尺寸分别为35、45、30 μm,能够达到半固态加工实际化生产的较高要求.晶粒在不同的温度下随着保温时间的延长,晶粒的圆整度均逐渐变小,球晶化越来越好.     

SIMA法制备半固态材料过程中球状晶粒粗化机制的研究

目的 提高半固态金属坯料的制备效率。方法 针对6061变形铝合金，提出了一种高效率的旋转锻造应变诱发法制备半固态材料的新工艺。通过比较不同半固态等温热处理条件下的微观组织，分析了等温热处理过程中旋转锻造材料微观组织的演变过程和粗化机制，获得了制备半固态6061铝合金材料的合理工艺参数。结果 当旋锻应变量为0.44时，在620~630 ℃保温5 min，晶粒尺寸为48.1~52.8 μm，晶粒形状系数为0.8~0.82;保温温度为620，630，640 ℃下球状晶粒长大速率分别为407.45，841.43，1038.03 μm³/s。结论 球状晶粒的平均晶粒尺寸随着保温时间增加和保温温度的升高而增大，球状晶粒的长大主要受到晶粒的合并长大和Ostwald熟化两种机制的共同作用，并且随着保温时间的增加，Ostwald熟化逐渐起主导作用;并且球状晶粒的粗化速率随着温度的升高而增加。     

等径道角挤压对Mg-6Al合金性能的影响

为了优化铸态Mg-6Al合金等径道角挤压的工艺参数,通过等径道角挤压实验研究了工艺参数对其性能的影响.研究表明:等径道角挤压可大幅度提高Mg-6Al合金坯料的力学性能.当Mg-6Al合金挤压1道次至4道次后,其力学性能提高较大,微观组织明显细化.随挤压温度从260℃升高至300℃,被挤压坯料的力学性能先提高后降低.当挤压路径为路径B,挤压道次为4道次,挤压温度为300℃时,Mg-6Al合金的力学性能最高,其抗拉强度为308.2 MPa,延伸率达到30.6%.     

Al-2O-3sf/AZ91D-Y镁基复合材料二次重熔及等温压缩研究

为了推动半固态加工在镁基复合材料成形中的应用,采用液态浸渗法制备出体积分数为10%的Al2O3sf/AZ91D-Y镁基复合材料,并采用等径道角挤压对镁基复合材料进行了形变诱导。再对镁基复合材料进行了二次重熔,并采用等温压缩实验对镁基复合材料在半固态下的力学性能进行了研究。研究表明:在550℃和560℃时延长保温时间有利于组织的球化,在560℃比550℃时,更加能促进晶粒的结晶球化;在相同的应变速率下,压缩变形时的峰值应力随着加热温度升高而降低;在相同的加热温度下,应变速率越大,峰值应力越大。     

浇注温度和ECAP对铝合金坯料组织的影响

采用近液相线法结合新SIMA法复合工艺制备半固态A356铝合金坯料,研究了浇注温度、等径角挤压(ECAP)和半固态处理温度、时间对坯料组织的影响.结果表明,适当的工艺参数可以制备出球状初生α-Al相晶粒的半固态A356铝合金坯料,其中较合理的工艺参数为:近液相线浇注温度为610℃,半固态保温温度为580℃,半固态保温时...     

不同路径等通道转角挤压双相Mg-10.73Li-4.49Al-0.52Y合金的组织与力学性能

采用等通道转角挤压（ECAP）工艺在573 K温度下以Bc、A和C三种工艺路径对双相Mg-10.73Li-4.49Al-0.52Y镁锂合金分别进行1-4道次挤压变形,利用光学显微镜、扫描电镜和X射线衍射等研究变形后合金组织。结果表明,三种路径ECAP变形后,α相和β相晶粒均得到显著拉长和细化;4道次变形后,路径A获得片...     

Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of back-extruded Al 7075 alloy in the semi-solid state

The thixoforming process is a new method for manufacturing complicated and net shape components through which high strength materials can be formed more easily. In this study 7075 Al alloy which has low extrudability has been thixoformed by backward extrusion process. The recrystallisation and partial melting (RAP) route was used to obtain the semi-solid feedstocks for thixoforming. Microstructural evolution during partial remelting was studied at temperatures for times. Results showed that a fine and globular microstructure can be obtained by the RAP route. The results showed that high semisolid isothermal temperature would increase the liquid volume fraction and accelerate the spherical processing of the solid particles. Furthermore at long holding time, the globular grains coarsened slightly and the average grains size are increased. The experimental results showed that when the semisolid billet is hold at 580°C with the holding time, less than 30 min, the microstructure of the billet is composed of spherical grains and remnant liquids, the average grain size are smaller than 100 μm. So the remelted billet is suitable for thixoforming. In this paper, a back-extruding of 7075 Al alloy with a high solid fraction in the semi-solid state at 580°C for 10 min was performed. Mechanical properties of thixoformed components at room temperature were examined. Tempering treatment T6 has been applied after thixoforming to investigate the effects of heat treatment on mechanical properties of thixoformed parts. The tensile properties and low hardness values in the as-thixoformed 7075 Al alloy were improved by subsequent heat treatment. Post-forming heat treatment is one of the key parameters for improving the mechanical properties of thixoformed parts.     

Effects of isothermal treatment parameters on the microstructure of semisolid alloys

Cold-rolled 6061 aluminium alloys are used to prepare semisolid billets by recrystallisation and partial melting. The effects of isothermal treatment parameters on the microstructures were investigated. The results indicated that the high isothermal holding temperature increases the experimental liquid fraction, average grain size and shape factor. A long isothermal holding time also increases the experimental liquid fraction and improves the spheroidisation degree of solid grains, but the average grain size also increases. Moreover, when the isothermal holding time at high temperature is increased, the size of intragranular liquid droplets increases, but their quantity decreases. The optimal isothermal holding temperature and time during semisolid isothermal treatment were 635°C and 5?–?10?min, respectively.     

Microstructures and properties of ultrafine-grained pure titanium processed by equal-channel angular pressing and cold deformation

Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) has been used to refine the grain size of commercially pure (CP) titanium as well as other metals and alloys. CP-Ti is usually processed at about 400 degrees C because it lacks sufficient ductility at lower temperature. The warm processing temperature limits the ability of the ECAP technique to improve the strength of CP-Ti. We have employed cold deformation following warm ECAP to further improve the strength of CP-Ti. Ti billets were first processed for eight passes via ECAP route Bc, with a clockwise rotation of 90 degrees between adjacent passes. The grain size obtained by ECAP alone is about 260 nm. The billets were further processed by cold deformation (cold rolling) to increase the crystalline defects such as dislocations. The strength of pure Ti was improved from 380 to around 1000 MPa by the two-step process. This article reports the microstructures, microhardness, tensile properties, and thermal stability of these Ti billets processed by a combination of ECAP and cold deformation.     

Ultrafine-grained Ti–Nb–Ta–Zr alloy produced by ECAP at room temperature

To ascertain the influence of severe plastic deformation (SPD) on a Ti–Nb–Ta–Zr (TNTZ) alloy, we studied the room temperature mechanical behavior and microstructural evolution of an ultrafine-grained (UFG) Ti–36Nb–2Ta–3Zr (wt%) alloy prepared via equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) of the as-hot-extruded alloy. The tensile behavior, phase composition, grain size, preferred orientation, and dislocation density of the UFG alloy, processed under different conditions, were analyzed and discussed. Compared to the as-hot-extruded alloy, the ECAP-processed TNTZ alloy (3 passes) exhibited approximately 40 and 88 % increase in average ultimate strength and yield strength, respectively. Moreover, as the number of ECAP passes increased from 3 to 6, the TNTZ alloy exhibited not only the expected increase in ultimate and yield strength values, but also a slight increase in elongation. Our results suggest that the deformation mechanisms that govern the behavior of the as-hot-extruded coarse grained (CG) TNTZ alloy during ECAP involve a combination of stress-induced martensitic transformation and dislocation activity. In the case of the ECAP-processed UFG TNTZ alloy, the deformation mechanism is proposed to involve two components: first, dislocation activity induced by the strain field imposed during ECAP; and second, the formation of α″ martensite phase during the early stages of ECAP which eventually transforms into β phase during continued deformation. We propose that the deformation mechanism governing the room temperature behavior of the TNTZ alloy strongly depends on the grain size of the β phase.     

变形的AZ91D镁合金半固态等温压缩的力学行为

为了了解等径道角挤压(ECAE)的AZ91D镁合金在半固态压缩变形中的力学特征,利用半固态温压缩实验、Gleeble1500实验机和金相显微镜对其在半固态压缩变形中的力学行为进行了研究.结果表明:ECAE的AZ91D镁合金在半固态等温压缩中变形由固相晶粒本身的塑性变形、液相包围着固相晶粒的滑动和转动构成;该材料的真应力-真应变曲线由应力激增阶段、应力下降阶段、稳态阶段和应力增加阶段组成;随保温时间的增加或变形温度的升高,获得相同应变量的真应力明显下降,稳态应力和峰值应力也明显下降;随应变速率的增加,稳态应力增加.     

Microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grain ZK60 alloy processed by equal channel angular pressing

The microstructure evolution and tensile properties of ZK60 magnesium alloy after equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) have been investigated. The results show that the two-step ECAP process is more effective in grain refinement than the single-step ECAP process due to the lower deformation temperature, a mean grain size of ~0.8 μm was obtained after two-step ECAP process at 513 K for four passes and 453 K for four passes. The EBSD examination reveals that ZK60 alloy after two-step ECAP process exhibits a more homogeneous grain size and misorientation distribution than single-step ECAP process. Both alloys after ECAP process present similar strong {0002} texture. The tensile strength of two-step ECAP alloy has also been improved compared with the single-step ECAP alloy. The strengthening effect was mainly ascribed to grain refinement.     

Steady State Rheological Characteristic of Semisolid Magnesium Alloy

Isothermal compressive experiments at different temperatures, strain rates and holding time for semisolid AZ91D, Zr modified AZ91D and MB15 alloy with higher solid volume fraction were carried out by using Gleeble-1500D simulator and the true stress-strain curves were given directly. The relationship of apparent viscosity vs temperature, shear rate and holding time of the three kinds of semi-solid magnesium alloys, as well as isothermal steady state rheological characteristic and mechanical behavior were studied. The results show that the three magnesium alloys had the characteristic of shear-thinning. The rheological characteristic of the semi-solid MB15 is different from that of semi-solid AZ91D. The semi-solid MB15 has higher apparent viscosity and deformation resistance.     

Investigation of texture and mechanical properties of copper processed by new route of equal channel angular pressing

The evolution of crystallographic texture and the mechanical properties of copper subjected to severe plastic deformation (SPD) using equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) were investigated. Samples were subjected to ECAP under two different processing routes: B₆₀ and B_C. As the cross sections of the samples were circular, a new route with a rotation angle of 60° in the same direction between consecutive passes was introduced. The material exhibited texture development similar to the simple shear texture in both routes and the most significant changes in texture strength in both processing routes took place after the second pass. Microstructure of ECAP processed samples were investigated using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis. Comparison of the EBSD data with optical micrograph of the initial sample confirmed that ECAP process has led to a significant decrease in grain size. Significant increases in hardness and tensile strength were observed after the first pass of ECAP. Variations of tensile strength as a function of the number of passes were related to the dislocation densities and the average boundary spacing.