Microstructure evolution of Al-Si semi-solid slurry by gas bubble stirring method

A novel technique of introducing gas bubble stirring during solidification was studied to prepare Al-Si semi-solid slurry. The microstructure evolution of the slurry during slow cooling process after stirring was investigated. The effects of the solidification rate on the microstructure of the semi-solid slurry were investigated under three different solidification conditions. The results show that fine non-dendritic slurry can be obtained using the gas bubble stirring method. Ripening and coarsening of primary Al grains are observed during the slow cooling process, and at last coarsened eutectic Si appears. Primary Al grains with different sizes and eutectic Si are obtained, corresponding to three different solidification rates.     

Performance of Semi-solid Slurry Produced by Twin-screw Stirring Mixer and Rheo-diecasting Process of AZ91D Alloy

The microstructure of semi-solid slurry of AZ91D alloy, which was produced by twin-screw stirring mixer under the different parameters, was investigated. Rheoforming by cold chamber die casting process was performed thereafter. The results indicate that with decreasing of the barrel temperature of the mixer and the pouring temperature of molten Mg alloy, the solid fraction of semi-solid slurry increases and the size of non-den-dritic grains becomes smaller. While the shear rate increases, the solid fraction of semi-solid slurry decreases. The tensile strength and elongation of metal rheoformed by die casting are higher by about 37% and 44% respectively than those produced by conventional liquid die casting.     

Two-dimensional simulation on the rolling process of semi-solid 60Si2Mn by finite element method

The effect of various process variables on the law of metal flow for semi-solid rolling 60Si2Mn was studied by finite element method. Semi-solid 60Si2Mn can be described as compressible rigid visco-plastic porous material saturated with liquid. In terms of ther-mo-mechanical coupling condition, the distributions of stress, velocity and temperature were studied using software MARC. The simulation results show that the rigid visco-plastic model can accurately describe the semi-solid 60Si2Mn rolling process. The great deformation can achieve completely in view of low flow stress of semi-solid slurry.     

复合工艺制备的半固态A356铝合金初生相形貌分形特征研究

利用复合工艺制备了A356铝合金半固态浆料,研究了半固态A356铝合金初生相形貌的分形特征．应用编制的计算程序计算了半固态A356铝合金初生相形貌的分形维数．结果表明,复合工艺制备的半固态A356铝合金初生相的形貌可以用分形维数来表征,不同工艺参数下所获得的半固态初生相形貌具有不同的分形维数．铸锭中不同部位半固态初生相的形貌具有不同的分形维数,反映了同一铸锭不同部位的凝固条件对半固态初生相形貌的影响．凝固组织中的每个半固态初生相的分形形貌均为系统耗散性的几何表现．     

Preparation of semi-solid aluminum alloy slurry poured through a water-cooled serpentine channel

A water-cooled serpentine channel pouring process was invented to produce semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy slurry for rheocasting, and the effects of pouring temperature and circulating cooling water flux on the microstructure of the slurry were investigated. The results show that at the pouring temperature of 640-680°C and the circulating cooling water flux of 0.9 m3/h, the semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy slurry with spherical primary α(Al) grains can be obtained, whose shape factors are between 0.78 and 0.86 and the grain diameter can reach 48-68 μm. When the pouring temperatures are at 660-680°C, only a very thin solidified shell remains inside the serpentine channel and can be removed easily. When the serpentine channel is cooled with circulating water, the microstructure of the semi-solid slurry can be improved, and the serpentine channel is quickly cooled to room temperature after the completion of one pouring. In terms of the productivity of the special equipment, the water-cooled serpentine channel is economical and efficient.     

Numerical simulation on reho-diecasting mould filling of an automobile master brake cylinder

An apparent viscosity model of semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy has been developed and the software Castsoft6.0 coupled with the model has been used to simulate the mould filling of an automobile master brake cylinder with the semi-solid A356 alumi-num alloy slurry.The simulation results are in agreement with the practical filling process, indicating that the apparent viscosity model is feasible and can be used to simulate the mould filling of the semisolid A356 aluminum alloy slurry and can be used to opti-mize the filling process and the design of dies.A higher injection pressure, a higher ingate flow velocity of the semi-solid slurry, and a higher slurry temperature are advantageous to the mould filling of the automobile master brake cylinder.     

Numerical simulation on the rheo-diecasting of the semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy

The effect of injection pressure, piston velocity, and the forming temperature of semisolid slurry on the filling behavior of the semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy was investigated by simulation methods. The simulation results show that these processing parameters have an important effect on the filling behavior of the semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy. The slurry flows steadily in the cavity when the injection pressure, the piston velocity, and the forming temperature are low, but it is prone to turbulent flow w...     

AZ91D镁合金半固态加工技术研究进展

半固态加工技术包括半固态浆料或坯料的制备和成形工艺,已经广泛应用于镁合金的加工.AZ91D是镁合金半固态研究及工业应用中最成功的一种镁合金,文中介绍了半固态加工技术及其特点,综述了近年来AZ91D镁合金半固态加工技术的研究现状与进展,包括半固态镁合金的微观组织、成形工艺及其成形件的性能,指出了镁合金半固态加工技术存在的...     

Semi-solid slurry preparation and rolling of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel

The preparation and rolling of the semi-solid slurry 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel were researched. The experimental results show that when stirred for 2-3 min under the given test condition, the semi-solid slurry with about 50%-60% (volume fraction) solid and the spherical primary austenitic grains in the size of 100-200μm can be obtained, and it is easy to be discharged from the bottom little hole of the stirring chamber. The semi-solid slurry of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel can be rolled into the given plate successfully. However, the solid phase and liquid phase are easily separated in the rolling process, so that the solid primary austenitic grains are concentrated in the center and the liquid phase is near the edge of the rolled plate. The strengths of the plate rolled in the semi-solid state are higher than that of the traditionally repeated hot-rolled plate of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel.     

半固态挤压成型的研究现状

半固态挤压成型是集半固态加工与挤压成型为一体,利用半固态合金浆料的流变性能进行充型,并在压力作用下凝固成型的一种材料加工新技术。介绍了半固态挤压成型的原理及特点,阐述了半固态挤压成型在挤压合金方面的研究现状及其发展前景。     

半固态等温热处理制备非枝晶组织合金坯料的研究进展

半固态等温热处理作为一种比较有发展前途的非枝晶组织坯料制备方法,对其展开研究将有助于丰富半固态金属成形理论和加速该技术的工业化应用。在半固态等温热处理制备非枝晶组织合金坯料已取得研究成果的基础上,回顾了该技术在工艺因素对非枝晶组织形成的影响、非枝晶组织的形成机理和非枝晶组织坯料的压缩变形特性等方面的研究进展,指出了该技术目前在这些方面还存在的问题,并展望了今后的发展方向。     

铝合金的半固态成形技术

金属材料的半固态成形是一种能够获得致密组织及高性能零部件的近净成形技术,被认为是一项绿色成形新技术。在简要介绍半固态成形技术研究现状的基础上,着重叙述了作者进行高能超声波制备铝合金半固态浆料、半固态浆料流变压铸成形的试验研究。研究表明,超声制浆及半固态压铸成形工艺适合于铝合金零件的成形制造。含20％Si 的高硅铝合金Al-20Si-2Cu-1Ni经过半固态压铸成形,T6热处理后抗拉强度可达到310MPa,比传统液态压铸提高34％。     

Continuous Extruding Extending Forming of Semi-solid A2017 Alloy

1 IntroductionSince the pioneering work of Flemings[1-3]and hisco-workers ,semi-solid metals and their processing tech-niques ,as a near-net shape technology,have drawn con-siderable attention,especiallyinthe automobile and elec-tronic products industries[3-5].Semi-solid process can di-videintothixoformingandrheoforming.At present ,thixo-forming process has been applied successfully, such assemi-solid die casting,semi-solid extrusion and semi-sol-id dieforging.Thethixoforming processinvolves …     

AZ31B镁合金应变诱发半固态组织观察

采用AZ31B镁合金挤出材,在573K进行28％-30％预变形加工,然后在863—893K经过不同保温时间进行等温球化处理,观察了试样不同区域的组织,考察了温度及保温时间对组织的影响,得到了具有圆整固相颗粒的半固态组织．实验结果表明：适当提高球化处理温度,有利于加速球化过程,以获得细小圆整半固态组织;延长保温时间固相分数降低,但幅度不大,并发生颗粒不规则化;在同一个试样上,由于部位不同,变形程度不同,所得半固态材料的固相率不同．讨论了半固态组织的形成机理,分析认为预变形后,半固态组织形成过程包括再结晶、晶粒长大阶段,受溶质、空位扩散控制的半固态组织形成阶段,受液-固界面张力作用的固相颗粒圆整化阶段．开始形成半固态组织阶段,扩散占主导地位,在进一步球化过程中,界面张力占主导地位．     

Filling ability of semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy slurry in rheo-diecasting

The effects of slurry temperature, injection pressure, and piston velocity on the rheo-filling ability of semisolid A356 alloys were studied by the reho-diecasting methods. The results show that the slurry temperature of the semi-solid A356 aluminum alloy has an important effect on the filling ability; the higher the slurry temperature, the better is the filling ability, and the appropriate slurry temperature for rheo-filling is in the range of 585-595℃. The injection pressure also has a great effect on the filling ability, and it is appropriate to the rheo-filling when the injection pressure is in the range of 15-25 MPa. The piston velocity also has a great effect on the filling ability, and it is appropriate to the rheo-filling when the piston velocity is in the range of 0.072-0.12 m/s. The filling ability of the slurry prepared by low superheat pouring with weak electromagnetic stirring is very good and the microstructural distribution in the rheo-formed die castings is homogeneous, which is advantageous to the high quality die casting. 2008 University of Science and Technology Beijing. All rights reserved.     

半固态AZ91D流变铸轧正交试验研究

在半固态AZ91D镁合金铸轧工艺试验研究中,选取机械搅拌速度、机械搅拌时间、熔体静置时间和浇铸温度作为试验因子,用正交试验法进行半固态AZ91D镁合金流变铸轧试验;用极差分析法分析了试验结果.结果表明:对半固态AZ91D镁合金组织结构的影响主次顺序为:搅拌速度、静置时间、浇注     

电子陶瓷薄膜动压悬浮流延的动压场分析

基于硬磁盘存储系统中磁头相对磁盘的动压悬浮理论的电子陶瓷薄膜流延法是陶瓷薄膜流延领域的一种新技术之一.利用该技术可以在不提高流延系统几何运动精度的情况下流延出超精密和超薄的电子陶瓷薄膜.本文基于流体Reynolds方程建立了流延浆料的流体动压方程,用MATLAB计算并获得流延口的压强分布形态,并且总结出浆料的物理特性、流延浆料输入压强、流延口几何参量以及流延速度对流延动压场分布的影响规律.     

Effects of Extrusion Processing on Microstructure of 7075Al Alloy in the Semi-solid State

A recrystallization and partial melting(RAP) process was introduced to prepare the semi-solid 7075 aluminum alloy used for thixoforming. In order to obtain an ideal semi-solid microstructure, a series of extrusion experiments were conducted to comparatively investigate the optimum extrusion process parameters. Commercial 7075 Al alloy samples were firstly extruded with varying extrusion ratios below the recrystallization temperature followed by homogenization, then these samples were reheated to the semi-solid state and held in the range of 5 to 50 minutes. The experimental results show that varying process cause the difference in the deformation degree and microstructure for as-extruded samples, resulting in various semi-solid microstructure. It is verified that the formation of equiaxed grains in semi-solid microstructure depends on recrystallization behavior of extruded samples during partial melting. Both relative high extrusion temperature and low extrusion ratio lead to high volume fraction of recrystallized area, thus entirely equiaxed solid grains in semi-solid 7075 Al alloy samples can be obtained finally. In addition, Ostwald ripening was determined as the dominate coarsening mechanism of solid grains in semi-solid state for this 7075 Al alloy during the RAP route. The influence of predeformation on recrystallization behavior of this 7075 Al alloy was discussed in detail.     

亚共晶铝硅合金半固态初生相形貌分形维数的计算

利用低过热度浇注技术制备了亚共晶铝硅合金半固态浆料,研究了半固态初生相的形貌及其分形维数和计算方法．应用图像计盒维数的算法计算了亚共晶铝硅合金半固态初生相的分形维数,并编制了相应的计算程序对亚共晶铝硅合金半固态初生相的形貌图像的计盒维数进行了计算．结果表明,不同工艺条件下制备的亚共晶铝硅合金半固态的初生相形貌有不同的分形维数;分形维数可反映初生相形貌的复杂程度．借助分形维数的计算结果可研究亚共晶铝硅合金半固态初生相的形貌及其组织性能．     

Low superheat pouring with a Shear Field in rheocasting of aluminum alloys

A new rheocasting process, Low Superheat Pouring with a Shear Field （LSPSF）, was developed to produce semi-solid slurry for the rheo-forming process. The LSPSF process is one of controlled nucleation and limited growth techniques in which effective nucleation rate is controlled by passive mixing and localized rapid cooling near the liquidus temperature; dendrite growth is limited by a much slower cooling process. The experimental results of rheocast Al-Cu alloy 201 and secondary diecasting alloy A380 demonstrate that LSPSF process is capable of producing high-quality slurry in a matter of seconds. It is concluded that maximizing nucleation and nuclei survival directly lead to the grain refinement of the rheocasting microstructure, and high nuclei density combined with a slower cooling afterwards leads to a globular structure of primary phases.