半固态铝合金铸件触变充型过程的模拟

在充分考虑半固态A1Si7Mg合金触变充型过程中压力和速度变化特征基础上，建立耦合半固态表观粘度的三维流场数学模型，确定固定流量的入流边界条件和约束滑动型壁边界条件以及保持入流温度不变的初始条件，并采用SOLA—VOF法对铝合金件的触变充型过程进行了模拟计算。结果表明，由于半固态表观粘度随剪切速率增大而下降，造成局部浆料充型速度的复杂变化，从而使半固态合金呈现剪切变稀的触变成形特点。由于充型时间极短，浆料在充型过程中降温小于1℃。刹车泵体模拟计算结果展示了模拟与实际成形结果的一致性。     

镁合金半固态流变压铸充型流动过程分析

通过压铸实验分析了镁合金半固态流变压铸、液态压铸充型流动过程.结果表明,镁合金半固态流变压铸和液态压铸充型流动过程相似;相同充型条件下,半固态流变压铸卷气现象较少,压铸件质量优于液态压铸.同时,内浇道充型速度和内浇道尺寸对压铸件充填过程影响很大,合理的设置可以减少涡流和卷气,得到高质量的压铸件.     

A356半固态触变充型与压铸充型过程模拟比较

利用商业软件Flow-3D，模拟了A356合金半固态触变压铸和普通压铸的充型流动过程。模拟结果表明：相同模具结构中的半固态压铸和普通压铸充型过程，半固态流动平稳，普通压铸由于湍流流动，因而容易出现气孔、卷气夹杂等缺陷。半固态触变压铸和普通压铸具有相同的流动通道。     

镁合金半固态流变充型过程数值模拟

利用所建立的流场、温度场耦合半固态表观粘度的三维数学模型,分析了镁合金及半固态镁合金AZ91B在不同充型速度时的流变特性。结果表明:具有伪塑性体及宾汉体特征的半固态流体,在相同充填条件下,具有充填过程平稳、卷气少等特征,从而可减少液态金属充型时遇到的常见缺陷。半固态材料铸造技术为解决铸件内部缺陷,调整成形工艺,提高产品质量提供了一种新方法。     

镁合金半固态流变压铸充型凝固过程数值模拟及试验研究

在前期平板模型流变压铸充型凝固过程数值分析的基础上,利用所建立的数学模型对镁合金压铸件中间轴螺塞进行了数值分析和实验研究,对比分析了零件成形时镁合金牛顿流体与镁合金半固态流体的充型特征及零件中存在缺陷的位置和大小。结果表明,与牛顿流体相比半固态流体更易实现铸液充型时的顺序填充,有利于铸型中的气体的排出和铸件成形质量的提高。模拟结果与试验结果吻合较好。     

支架零件半固态压铸充型过程的模拟和验证

利用AnyCasting软件模拟了支架零件的半固态压铸充型过程,对比分析了不同的充型速度、转换位置对充型结果的影响,并进行了试验验证。结果表明,当压射冲头以0.1m/s低速推动半固态浆料通过内浇道,在充型20%进行1m/s高速转换时,能够获得完整、轮廓清晰的半固态成形件。模拟结果与实际相符合。     

铝合金半固态压铸充型过程的有限元模拟

使用改进的ANSYS5．7有限元软件，对铝合金半固态压铸的充型过程进行计算机模拟，并把模拟结果和实际情况进行比较。结果发现，提出的简化模拟模型可以较好地模拟实际的铝合金半固态压铸过程，表明该模型是有效的。     

半固态金属充型过程数值模拟技术的研究进展

简要介绍了半固态金属充型过程数值模拟所采用的拉格朗日方法和欧拉法,并对目前一些商品化软件采用的描述半固态金属充填过程的几种表观粘度数学模型做了详尽的阐述,此外,对半固态充型过程数值模拟技术的研究进展做了较详细的论述,认为半固态金属充型过程数值模拟技术须考虑诸如边界条件、液固相偏析等众多影响因素,并指出今后可从模型的建立、成形全过程的模拟和各种成形方法的模拟等方面加强研究.     

半固态铸造充型过程数值模拟研究新进展

对近期国内外半固态铸造充型过程数值模拟的研究成果进行了系统综述,包括数值模拟的计算方法,流变模型的研究进展以及数值模拟的应用现状,展望了未来半固态铸造充型过程数值模拟研究的发展方向。     

半固态镁合金触变成形数值模拟及试验验证

利用DEFORM-3D塑性有限元软件,对半固态AZ61触变成形过程进行了数值模拟,分析了半固态坯料与常规态坯料成形过程中的应力、应变分布和温度场,并对此两种坯料进行了触变锻造试验.结果表明,半固态镁合金材料具有变形抗力小,应力、应变分布均匀,通过对触变锻造试验和模拟结果的对比可知,二者拟合较为理想.     

半固态AZ91D镁合金压铸过程的数值模拟

采用机械搅拌方式研究了半固态AZ91D合金的流变特性,并根据实验数据,拟合出剪切速率为238s-1时,半固态AZ91D合金的固相体积分数和表观粘度之间的关系式。从流体力学的角度,采用数值技术对半固态AZ91D镁合金的压铸过程进行了研究。数值模拟结果表明,半固态浆料温度为550℃、模具温度为300℃、压铸速度为1m/s时,该文所设计的压铸件的压铸过程能很好地进行。同时,该研究工作能为分析压铸成形过程提供有益的信息。     

半固态镁合金连续铸轧过程的数值模拟

根据半固态镁合金连续铸轧工艺过程的特点,建立了二维不可压缩非牛顿流体流动与传热的耦合计算模型,并使用流体分析软件FLOW3D对连续性方程、纳维-斯托克斯方程及能量方程进行稳态求解。考虑到辊间半固态金属浆料流动特点及双辊的布置方式有利于保持熔池内的层流流动,选取层流模型来进行描述。最终获得了连续铸轧工艺过程的流场、温度场和固相体积分数的分布以及入口浆料温度、铸轧速度等工艺参数对铸轧过程的影响规律。模拟结果可以很好地对工艺参数进行优化,从而为半固态镁合金的连续铸轧工业化生产奠定基础。     

镁基复合材料半固态压铸过程的数值模拟

对镁基复合材料半固态充型凝固过程进行数值模拟,并进行半固态流变成形实验。结果表明,在液态充型过程中,压力变化非常紊乱;而在固态充型过程中,压力在推进方向上逐渐降低,这将产生有利于充型的背压。凝固过程的固相体积分数变化表明:在半固态充型条件下,整个铸件基本上是同时凝固,从而可有效地避免在液态充型时产生缩孔缩松。实验结果与模拟结果吻合,半固态流变成形件的质量优于液态成形件的质量。     

AZ91D镁合金半固态触变成形压铸工艺

采用等温热处理对AZ91D镁合金进行非枝晶化，研究半固态镁合金的触变压铸工艺，得到性能良好的触变压铸镁合金试件。通过改变压力和压射速度等工艺参数，发现其抗拉强度和伸长率都随着压力或速度的上升而增加，当增压压力为35MPa和压射速度为4．5m／s时，其抗拉强度达到最大，为237．5MPa，伸长率为4．8％。通过组织分析认为，半固态触变压铸对晶粒细化效果明显，这与固相颗粒在充型过程中的二次破碎，液相喷射分散后凝固具有直接的关系。     

Grain size distribution in a complex AM60 magnesium alloy die casting

Presolidified equiaxed dendritic crystals are observed in magnesium cold chamber high pressure die castings. Depending on the rate at which new crystals are formed and to what extent they survive in the shot sleeve, a mixture of liquid and crystals is injected into the die cavity resulting in floating crystals in the casting. Box shaped die castings of the AM60 magnesium alloy have been made with a cold chamber high pressure die casting machine. The resulting microstructure is generally observed to consist of (a) a fine grained structure or (b) a mixture of fine grains and coarse grains which is either centred or dispersed in the through thickness cross-section. The prevalence of structures is observed to vary with position in the casting. Close to the gate a coarse grained microstructure dominates, while fine grains dominate further from the gate. The volume fraction of floating crystals in the casting is shown to depend on the initial superheat of the melt. IJCMR/492     

镁合金AZ91D压铸的数值模拟

运用有限元模拟软件对镁合金AZ91D零件在普通压铸与真空压铸下进行计算机数值模拟,有效的预测液态金属在充型过程、凝固过程中的流场、温度场及宏观缺陷,以此对宏观缺陷的出现进行控制,优化铸造过程。此外比较真空压铸与普通压铸对铸件气孔率的影响。结果表明,当铸造工艺参数分别为冲头压射速度2.4 m/s、浇注温度655℃、模具初始温度180℃时,与压铸相比,真空压铸能有效减少铸件的气孔率,改善铸件质量。     

汽车用铝合金零件的半固态压铸数值模拟

对采用近液相线铸造法制备的6061铝合金半固态坯料进行热模拟压缩试验,根据试验获得的6061铝合金不同温度与应变速率下的应力—应变曲线,采用多元回归线性方法建立能够表征6061铝合金半固态变形行为的本构方程。根据Stefan等研究学者提出的半固态浆料的表观黏度与热模拟压缩试验中的应变速率等参数间的关系式,对表观黏度和剪切速率之间的关系进行了研究。应用仿真软件ANYCASTING模拟充填速度对6061铝合金半固态触变压铸过程的影响。结果表明:Bingham模型中表观黏度等各个参数的确定符合实际生产经验值,为6061铝半固态合金零件触变压铸过程的研究提供了一定的理论基础。     

Feasibility of semi-solid die casting of ADC12 aluminum alloy

The feasibility of semi-solid die casting of ADC12 aluminum alloy was studied. The effects of plunger speed, gate thickness, and solid fraction of the slurry on the defects were determined. The defects investigated are gas and shrinkage porosity. In the experiments, semi-solid slurry was prepared by the gas-induced semi-solid (GISS) technique. Then, the slurry was transferred to the shot sleeve and injected into the die. The die and shot sleeve temperatures were kept at 180 °C and 250 °C, respectively. The results show that the samples produced by the GISS die casting give little porosity, no blister and uniform microstructure. From all the results, it can be concluded that the GISS process is feasible to apply in the ADC12 aluminum die casting process. In addition, the GISS process can give improved properties such as decreased porosity and increased microstructure uniformity.     

Strengthening technology and mechanism for semi-solid die casting of aluminum alloy

Combined with theoretical evaluation,an optimized strengthening process for the semi-solid die castings of A356 aluminum alloy was obtained by studying the mechanical properties of castings solution treated and aged under different conditions in detail,then,the semi-solid die castings and liquid die castings were heat treated with the optimized process.The results show that the mechanical properties of semi-solid die castings of aluminum alloy are superior to those of the liquid die castings,especially the strengthening degree of heat treated semi-solid die castingsis much greater than that of liquid die castings with the tensile strength more than 330 MPa and the elongation more than 10％,and this is mainly contributed to the non-dendritic and more compact microstructure of semi-solid die castings.The strengthening mechanism of heat treatment for the semi-solid die castings of A356 aluminum alloy is due to the dispersive precipitation of the second phase(Mg2 Si) and formation of GP Zone.     

Numerical simulation of the twin-roll casting process of magnesium alloy strip

The magnesium twin-roll strip casting process is investigated with a test caster at the IME. The flow field in the melt cannot be investigated optically, therefore numerical simulations have been undertaken to show the flow field in the Mg melt, the solidification between the two rolls and the cooling of the strip. The three-dimensional, turbulent flow field for different steady state casting points, in the process gap, have been calculated, including the solidification of the magnesium alloy melt. Within the process gap of the casting process the flow field shows similar flow structures. A big vortex in the casting channel and a much smaller vortex between the two rolls occur. With the increase of the casting speed the mushy zone is moved towards the kissing point. This can be interpreted due to a smaller force on the rolls. Nevertheless, the solidification on the rolls is so strong, that rolling between the two rolls happens.