The effect of anodising on the fatigue performance of self-tapping aluminium screws

Self-tapping aluminium screws are an innovative joining technology for the assembly of lightweight components in industrial scale. It has been established in the past that porous anodic oxide coatings in many cases reduce the fatigue strength of specimens without notches. In the present work, the fatigue behaviour of notched specimens, i.e. self-tapping screws made from aluminium alloys EN AW-6056, 6082 (both in a conventional state and in a fine-grained state produced by equal channel angular pressing – ECAP) and 7068 with and without oxide coatings is examined. The coatings are produced by hard anodising and are necessary for the thread-forming process during assembly. While the coatings do not affect the static tensile strength, they reduce the fatigue strength for the specimens of the 6056 and the 6082 alloy. For the 7068 alloy a slight increase in fatigue strength is discovered on a low load horizon. The scatter of endured fatigue cycles until fracture of specimens is generally reduced by the anodic oxide coatings.     

Microstructure and mechanical behavior of ECAP processed AZ31B over a wide range of loading rates under compression and tension

In this work, a commercial magnesium alloy, AZ31B in hot-rolled condition, has been subjected to severe plastic deformation via four passes of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) to modify its microstructure. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) was used to characterize the microstructure of the as-received, ECAPed and mechanically loaded specimens. Mechanical properties of the specimens were evaluated under both compression and tension along the rolling/extrusion direction over a wide range of strain rates. The yield strength, ultimate strength and failure strain/elongation under compression and tension were compared in detail to sort out the effects of factors in terms of microstructure and loading conditions. The results show that both the as-received alloy and ECAPed alloy are nearly insensitive to strain rate under compression, and the stress–strain curves exhibit clear sigmoidal shape, pointing to dominance of mechanical twinning responsible for the plastic deformation under compression. All compressive samples fail prematurely via adiabatic shear banding followed by cracking. Significant grain size refinement is identified in the vicinity of the shear crack. Under tension, the yield strength is much higher, with strong rate dependence and much improved tensile ductility in the ECAPed specimens. Tensile ductility is even much larger than the malleability under compression. This supports the operation of 〈c + a〉 dislocations. However, ECAP lowers the yield and flow strengths of the alloy under tension. We attempted to employ a mechanistic model to provide an explanation for the experimental results of plastic deformation and failure, which is in accordance with the physical processes under tension and compression.     

In vitro study on equal channel angular pressing AZ31 magnesium alloy with and without back pressure

The equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) technique with and without back pressure (BP) was introduced in this paper to prepare biomedical AZ31 magnesium alloy, with the effect of pass number (from 1 to 4) on the corrosion properties as well as in vitro biocompatibility being investigated. The results indicated that ECAPed or BP-ECAPed AZ31 alloys exhibited similar corrosion rate to that of the as-extruded one, but the corrosion rate slightly increased after 1-2 passes ECAP or BP-ECAP and further decreased after 4-pass procedure. Additionally, severe local corrosion was observed for the 1-3 passes ECAPed or BP-ECAPed AZ31 alloy samples. Compared to the as-extruded AZ31 alloy, the samples after ECAP or BP-ECAP procedure showed much smaller sized corrosion pits on the surface after removing the corrosion product. The surface analysis after 20 days immersion in Hank's solution revealed that the composition of the corrosion product consisted of C, O, Mg, P, Ca whereas only weak signal of Mg(OH)₂ could be detected beside the dominant α(Mg) peak by X-ray diffraction. The cytotoxicity results suggested that the multi-pass ECAPed or BP-ECAPed AZ31 alloy exhibited Grade I-II cytotoxicity according to ISO 10993-5: 1999.     

ECAP变形制备超细晶金属材料变形行为的研究进展

综述了等径弯曲通道变形制备超细晶金属材料变形行为的研究进展,重点介绍了等径弯曲通道变形制备的超细晶金属材料变形行为的研究方法及其不同于常规材料的力学行为、应变速率敏感性和超塑性,分析了超细晶金属材料的主要变形机理,进一步指出了变形行为及变形机理微观层次研究中存在的问题及发展趋势。     

等通道挤压工艺的有限元模拟研究进展

利用有限元法可以模拟ECAP工艺。综述了近年ECAP工艺的FEM研究成果,主要包括模具结构、摩擦、工艺条件几个因素的模拟分析。分析表明,优化磨具结构以及选取适当的工艺条件(如增加道次、选取C路径)可以减小死区、增加变形均匀性,摩擦对均匀性与死区的影响比较复杂。最后介绍了一些新型ECAP工艺的FEM研究进展。     

ECAP对连铸Cu-Ag合金断口形态及力学性能的影响

采用连续铸造和等径角挤压变形(ECAP)加工集成技术制备Cu-Ag合金,研究其力学性能和相应的拉伸断口形态。研究发现,Cu-Ag合金的强度随着ECAP加工道次和Ag含量的增加而增加,而延伸率却下降。连续铸造和ECAP加工的合金与传统浇铸和ECAP加工的合金相比,缩颈前静态韧性有所提高。同时发现,只有连铸的Cu-Ag合金在断裂前表现出缩颈现象,而经ECAP挤压后试样的断裂变为剪切模式,随着ECAP道次的增加出现不同的剪切断裂角。基于实验结果,讨论了经ECAP挤压后连铸Cu-Ag合金的拉伸断裂机制。     

Ultra-Fine Grained Degradable Magnesium for Biomedical Applications

通过对工业纯镁以及ZM21合金的性能测试研究了镁合金在可降解生物医学中的应用,讨论了等径角挤压制备超细晶以及温挤压对材料性能的影响。晶粒细化导致合金材料压缩强度明显提高,强烈的初始变形织构导致粗晶镁合金拉伸强度高于压缩。等径角挤压能够减弱织构的影响,使不同合金塑性流变行为获得改变。材料腐蚀性能主要受化学成分、晶粒大小以及先前变形诱导晶格畸变程度的综合影响。等径角挤压细化晶粒、增大晶格缺陷密度在一定程度上制衡了材料的腐蚀性能。同时弥散分布的第二相粒子的增加对于点蚀发展有着积极的作用。     

Route Effect on Equal Channel Angular Pressing of Copper Tube

A new technique to produce ultra-fine grained tubular specimen has been proposed,and the experiments have been performed using equal channel angular pressing(ECAP) with an angle of 90° between two intersecting channels and also the use of rubber pad as a mandrel during process.Commercial purity copper tubes have been pressed up to three passes through four different fundamental routes(A,B_A,B_C,and C) directions of which are identified in the text below.The influence of each route on the value,distribution,and homogeneity of hardness has been investigated by applying Vickers micro-hardness measurements at various locations of the tube's transverse planes.Significant enhancement of the hardness is observed after the first pass ECAP.Also,routes C and B_C show,respectively,better average hardness magnitude and hardness distribution uniformity.In addition,the results indicate that there is about 50%and 62%reduction of the grain size,compared to the annealed condition,following ECAP process of the copper tube sample after the first and the third pass via route B_C.     

浅析电控柴油机匹配整车的高温标定方法

主要是以电控组合泵柴油发动机为例,简介电控柴油机匹配整车的高温标定方法。     

Correlation between hydrogen storage properties and textures induced in magnesium through ECAP and cold rolling

It is feasible to obtain a significant enhancement of the hydrogen storage capability in magnesium by selecting an appropriate sequence of mechanical processing. The Mg metal may be produced with different textures which will then give significant differences in the absorption/desorption kinetics and in the incubation times for hydrogenation. Using processing by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP), different textures may be produced by changing both the numbers of passes through the ECAP die and the ram speed. Significant grain refinement is easily avoided by using commercial coarse-grained magnesium as the starting material. The use of cold rolling after ECAP further increases the preferential texture for hydrogenation. The results show that the hydriding properties are enhanced with a (002) texture where the improved kinetics lie mainly in the initial stages of hydrogenation. An incubation time is associated with the presence of a (101) texture and this is probably due to the magnesium oxide stability in this direction.