Investigation of fracture mechanism of 6063 aluminum alloy under different stress states |
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Authors: | Hao Zhu Liang Zhu Jian-Hong Chen Xian-Feng Lv |
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Affiliation: | (1) College of Materials science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China;(2) State Key Laboratory of Advanced Non-ferrous Metal Materials, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China |
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Abstract: | Fracture mechanisms in a 6063 aluminum alloy were investigated and analyzed carefully by in-situ tensile tests in SEM with a vacuum chamber. Specimens used were designed to produce different stress states. Studies indicated that with stress triaxiality (σ m/σ e) decreasing, the fracture modes changed from normal fracture to shear fracture and the fracture surfaces changed from the dimples and intragranular dominated fracture mode to the shear dominated fracture mode. The grain boundaries of the 6063 aluminum alloy were the weakest positions. In the case of high stress triaxiality, the grain boundary cracks were produced by normal stress or by the incompatibility of deformation between neighboring grains, and the normal stress dominated the crack propagation. In the case of low stress triaxiality, the boundary cracks were produced by the relative slipping of grains against neighboring grains, and the shear stress dominated the crack propagation. The final fracture of the specimens occurred by connections of cracks through transgranular cracking of the ligaments among these cracks. |
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Keywords: | 6063 aluminum alloy In-situ tensile test Fracture process Fracture mechanism |
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