SiCP增强泡沫铝基复合材料的制备工艺研究

将SiC颗粒增强铝基复合材料的制备技术与泡沫铝熔体发泡技术相结合,探索了制备SiC颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料的工艺方法。讨论了SiC颗粒与铝基体之间存在的润湿性,界面反应以及SiC颗粒在熔体中沉降等问题,通过选择合适的合金成分,对SiC颗粒进行预处理,采用特定的搅拌和发泡等一系列工艺方案成功地予以解决。在熔体发泡过程中,通过严格控制发泡温度、搅拌速度和搅拌时间等工艺参数,制得了孔隙率基本可调,SiC颗粒和孔洞分布均匀的泡沫铝样品。     

SiC颗粒自增黏熔体发泡法制备泡沫铝铸锭的组织及其特征分析

通过SiC颗粒自增黏熔体发泡法工艺制备得到泡沫铝基材料的铸锭;对制得的泡沫铝铸锭进行各个层面上不同部位的平均孔径和平均孔隙率的测定,得到了铸锭内部的孔隙率和孔径在铸锭径向和轴向上的变化规律;并且讨论和研究了熔体未发泡区域的形成原因,得到了熔体直接发泡法制备泡沫材料时气孔的形成过程模型。     

粉煤灰漂珠颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料的制备与研究

利用熔体发泡法制得粉煤灰漂珠颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料.正交试验结果表明各影响因素对粉煤灰漂珠颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料孔隙率影响程度由大到小依次为:发泡时间、发泡温度和发泡剂含量.粉煤灰漂珠颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料的最佳制备工艺参数为:发泡时间12 min,发泡温度800℃,发泡剂含量3％.准静态压缩试验表明,粉煤灰漂珠颗粒增强泡沫铝基复合材料的应力-应变曲线可分为弹性应变区、屈服平台区和致密压实区3个区域.     

熔体发泡法和吹气法制备泡沫铝的比较研究

比较研究了熔体发泡法和吹气法制备泡沫铝的工艺过程、泡沫结构特点、泡壁凝固组织、气孔率和气孔尺寸、性能特点和应用.为实际生产和应用中合理选择泡沫铝的制备方法提供参考.     

吹气法制备泡沫铝单炉发泡工艺中熔体剩余比例的预测

指出吹气法制备泡沫铝的单炉发泡工艺必定会有熔体剩余,并进行了实验验证。建立了单炉发泡工艺中颗粒含量和吹气深度的微分方程,其边界条件就是泡沫的稳定判据公式。对含公称直径9μm Al2O3颗粒的两个A356铝合金发泡过程进行了计算,并与实验值比较。结果表明:计算时,尽管由于将颗粒直径和吸附系数取为定值,使计算存在误差,但结论仍然合理可信;为减少单炉发泡过程的熔体剩余,应该提高颗粒含量和初始吹气深度,减小颗粒尺寸和临界覆盖率。     

吹气法制备泡沫铝的性能

基于吹气法制备A356基泡沫铝工艺,采用高速搅拌并分批连续加入粉末的方式,避免熔体中颗粒分布不均匀的问题;采用静置吹气头通入压缩空气发泡,通过设计和控制气路,制备出不同孔径、不同壁厚、稳定的泡沫铝.结果表明A356基泡沫铝是一种典型的塑性泡沫材料,泡孔呈十四面体形状,泡壁较薄,厚度小于150μm,可控的泡孔平均直径范围很宽,为10～25mm;泡沫铝在致密化阶段的塑性变形量可达70%以上;不作任何预处理的泡沫铝在高频率声波下的吸声系数可达0.9以上;在泡沫样品后设置0～70mm空腔,其在低频率声波下的吸声性能显著提高;所制备的泡沫铝具有较好的声学性能和力学性能.     

半固态法泡沫铝材料制备工艺研究

采用半固态法制备泡沫铝,并对制备工艺进行了初步探索。研究了熔体浇注温度、发泡剂TiH_2添加量对Al-Si合金熔体发泡孔隙率和平均孔径的影响。研究表明,利用Al-Si合金在半固态区的自增粘作用,可以得到孔隙率为20%~50%、孔径为2~4 mm的泡沫铝;浇注温度在650~670℃时,随浇注温度的升高,Al-Si合金泡沫铝试样孔隙率增加,更高的浇注温度使孔隙率减少;发泡剂TiH_2添加量在1%~3%时,随发泡剂添加量的增加,孔隙率和孔径均增加,发泡剂过多反而使孔隙率和孔径减小。浇注温度为670℃、TiH_2添加量3%时,Al-Si熔体发泡效果最优,孔隙率可达48%。     

泡沫铝芯填充合金的制造工艺技术研究

介绍了熔体发泡法制备泡沫铝的工艺方法,分析了增粘剂加入量、TiH2加入量和保温发泡时间对泡沫孔结构的影响.得出了制备具有均匀孔结构泡沫铝的工艺参数.     

Ca增粘熔体发泡法制备闭孔泡沫铝的研究

研究了熔体发泡法制备闭孔泡沫铝过程中,金属钙对熔体的增粘机理以及不同钙加入量对闭孔泡沫铝孔隙率的影响。发现加入金属Ca并搅拌均匀后,主要生成金属间化合物CaAl4和CaAl2,在熔体中弥散存在,且CaAl4熔点(697℃)高于制备泡沫铝的试验温度(680℃),处于半熔化状态,因此增加了铝熔体粘度。试验近一步证实,纯铝中金属钙的加入量对闭孔泡沫铝孔隙率有很大影响,当加入量为2.5%制备所得的泡沫铝的孔隙率最高。     

熔体注气法与熔体发泡法制备泡沫铝的压缩性能研究

比较研究了熔体注气法与熔体发泡方法制备的闭孔泡沫铝性能和组织结构。压缩试验表明,相同密度下,熔体发泡法制备的泡沫铝性能优于熔体注气法。相应的SEM观察表明,熔体注气法制备的泡沫铝泡孔表现为多面体形状,SiC颗粒密度高,泡孔壁薄、褶皱多。冶金组织复杂,氧化明显,表现出明显的脆性。熔体发泡法制备的泡沫铝孔洞形状为球形,孔壁较厚,泡壁相对平整、结构完整。因孔洞结构和组织结构差异导致2种方法制备的泡沫铝材料压缩性能差异明显。     

Effects of Post-weld Heat Treatment on Microstructure,Mechanical Properties and the Role of Weld Reinforcement in 2219 Aluminum Alloy TIG-Welded Joints

In as-welded state, each region of 2219 aluminum alloy TIG-welded joint shows diff erent microstructure and microhardness due to the diff erent welding heat cycles and the resulting evolution of second phases. After the post-weld heat treatment, both the amount and the size of the eutectic structure or θ phases decreased. Correspondingly, both the Cu content in α-Al matrix and the microhardness increased to a similar level in each region of the joint, and the tensile strength of the entire joint was greatly improved. Post-weld heat treatment played the role of solid solution strengthening and aging strengthening. After the post-weld heat treatment, the weld performance became similar to other regions, but weld reinforcements lost their reinforcing eff ect on the weld and their existence was more of an adverse eff ect. The joint without weld reinforcements after the post-weld heat treatment had the optimal tensile properties, and the specimens randomly crack in the weld zone.     

The First Phase of the SRIF Industrialized Base in ＂West Area＂ Has Been Put into Operation

After nearly two years＇ tense construction, the first phase of industrialized base of Shenyang Research Institute of Foundry （SRIF）, located at the Tiexi Casting and Forging Industrial Park in the west of Tiexi District, has now been completed and formally put into operation.     

Thermodynamics Study on the Decomposition of Chromite with KOH

Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has proposed a method for oxidative leaching of chromite with potassium hydroxide. Understanding the mechanism of chromite decomposition, especially in the potassium hydroxide fusion, is important for the optimization of the operating parameters of the oxidative leaching process. A traditional thermodynamic method is proposed and the thermal decomposition and the reaction decomposition during the oxidative leaching of chromite with KOH and oxygen is discussed, which suggests that chromite is mainly destroyed by reactions with KOH and oxygen. Meanwhile, equilibrium of the main reactions of the above process was calculated at different temperatures and oxygen partial pressures. The stable zones of productions, namely, K2CrO4 and Fe2O3, increase with the decrease of temperature, which indicates that higher temperature is not beneficial to thermodynamic reactions. In addition, a comparison of the general alkali methods is carried out, and it is concluded that the KOH leaching process is thermodynamically superior to the conventional chromate production process.     

Influence of Heat Treatment on Damping Behaviour of the Magnesium Wrought Alloy AZ61

The effect of isochronal heat treatments for 1h on variation of damping, hardness and microstructural change of the magnesium wrought alloy AZ61 was investigated. Damping and hardness behaviour could be attributed to the evolution of precipitation process. The influence of precipitation on damping behaviour was explained in the framework of the dislocation string model of Granato and Lücke.     

Effect of Rare Earth Doping on Impedance,Modulus and Conductivity Properties of Multiferroic Composites:0.5(BiLa_xFe_(1-x)O_3)–0.5(PbTiO_3)

The Lanthanum-doped bismuth ferrite–lead titanate compositions of 0.5(Bi LaxFe1-xO3)–0.5(Pb Ti O3)(x = 0.05,0.10,0.15,0.20)(BLxF1-x-PT) were prepared by mixed oxide method.Structural characterization was performed by X-ray diffraction and shows a tetragonal structure at room temperature.The lattice parameter c/a ratio decreases with increasing of La(x = 0.05–0.20) concentration of the composites.The effect of charge carrier/ion hopping mechanism,conductivity,relaxation process and impedance parameters was studied using an impedance analyzer in a wide frequency range(102–106Hz) at different temperatures.The nature of Nyquist plot confirms the presence of bulk effects only,and non-Debye type of relaxation processes occurs in the composites.The electrical modulus exhibits an important role of the hopping mechanism in the electrical transport process of the materials.The ac conductivity and dc conductivity of the materials were studied,and the activation energy found to be 0.81,0.77,0.76 and 0.74 e V for all compositions of x = 0.05–0.20 at different temperatures(200–300 °C).     

Quantitative Analysis of the Crystallographic Orientation Relationship Between the Martensite and Austenite in Quenching–Partitioning–Tempering Steels

The orientation relationships(ORs)between the martensite and the retained austenite in low-and medium-carbon steels after quenching–partitioning–tempering process were studied in this work.The ORs in the studied steels are identified by selected-area electron diffraction(SAED)as either K–S or N–W ORs.Meanwhile,the ORs were also studied based on numerical fitting of electron backscatter diffraction data method suggested by Miyamoto.The simulated K–S and N–W ORs in the low-index directions generally do not well coincide with the experimental pole figure,which may be attributed to both the orientation spread from the ideal variant orientations and high symmetry of the low-index directions.However,the simulated results coincide well with experimental pole figures in the high-index directions{123}_(bcc).A modified method with simplicity based on Miyamoto’s work was proposed.The results indicate that the ORs determined by modified method are similar to those determined by Miyamoto’method,that is,the OR is near K–S OR for the low-carbon Q–P–T steel,and with the increase of carbon content,the OR is closer to N–W OR in medium-carbon Q–P–T steel.     

Growth Kinetics of Single Inclusion Particle in Molten Melts

On the basis of the single-particle framework, a new theory on inclusion growth in metallurgical melts is developed to study the kinetics of inclusion growth on account of reaction and collision. The studies show that the early growth of inclusion depends on reaction growth and Brawnian motion collision, and where the former is decisive, the late growth depends on turbulence collision and Stokes＇ collision, and where the former is dominant; collision growth is very quick during the smelting process, lessened in the refining process, but nearly negligible in the continuous casting process.     

Theoretical Analysis for the Motion and Temperature of Melt Droplets in Spray Degassing Process

The motion of melt droplets in spray degassing process was analyzed theoretically. The height of the treatment tank in spray degassing process could be determined by the results of theoretical calculation of motion of melt droplets. To know whether the melt droplets would solidify during spraying process, the balance temperature of melt droplets was also theoretically analyzed. Then proof experiments for theoretical results about temperature of melt droplets were carried. In comparison, the experimental results were nearly similar to the calculation results.     

Using Finite Element and Contour Method to Evaluate Residual Stress in Thick Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Welded by Electron Beam Welding

This work was to reveal the residual stress profile in electron beam welded Ti-6Al-4V alloy plates(50 mm thick) by using finite element and contour measurement methods.A three-dimensional finite element model of 50-mmthick titanium component was proposed,in which a column–cone combined heat source model was used to simulate the temperature field and a thermo-elastic–plastic model to analyze residual stress in a weld joint based on ABAQUS software.Considering the uncertainty of welding simulation,the computation was calibrated by experimental data of contour measurement method.Both test and simulated results show that residual stresses on the surface and inside the weld zone are significantly different and present a narrow and large gradient feature in the weld joint.The peak tensile stress exceeds the yield strength of base materials inside weld,which are distinctly different from residual stress of the thin Ti-6Al-4V alloy plates presented in references before.     

Microstructures and Tensile Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Ni–(1–3.5) wt% SiC_(NP) Composites Prepared by a Powder Metallurgy Route

Silicon carbide nanoparticle-reinforced nickel-based composites(Ni–Si CNP),with a Si CNPcontent ranged from1 to 3.5 wt%,were prepared using mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering.In addition,unreinforced pure nickel samples were also prepared for comparative purposes.To characterize the microstructural properties of both the unreinforced pure nickel and the Ni–Si CNPcomposites transmission electron microscopy(TEM) was used,while their mechanical behavior was investigated using the Vickers pyramid method for hardness measurements and a universal tensile testing machine for tensile tests.TEM results showed an array of dislocation lines decorated in the sintered pure nickel sample,whereas,for the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,the presence of nano-dispersed Si CNPand twinning crystals was observed.These homogeneously distributed Si CNPwere found located either within the matrix,between twins or on grain boundaries.For the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,coerced coarsening of the Si CNPassembly occurred with increasing Si CNPcontent.Furthermore,the grain sizes of the Ni–Si CNPcomposites were much finer than that of the unreinforced pure nickel,which was considered to be due to the composite ball milling process.In all cases,the Ni–Si CNPcomposites showed higher strengths and hardness values than the unreinforced pure nickel,likely due to a combination of dispersion strengthening(Orowan effects) and particle strengthening(Hall–Petch effects).For the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,the strength increased initially and then decreased as a function of Si CNPcontent,whereas their elongation percentages decreased linearly.Compared to all materials tested,the Ni–Si CNPcomposite containing 1.5% Si C was found more superior considering both their strength and plastic properties.