Effect of as-solidified microstructure on subsequent solution-treatment process for A356 Al alloy
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- 作者：Bo DANG ; Cong-cong LIU ; Feng LIU ; liufeng@nwpu.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Ying-zhuo LIU ; Yuan-bing LI
- 关键词：A356 Al alloy ; solution heat treatment ; cooling rate ; eutectic silicon ; modification
- 刊名：Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：26
- 期：3
- 页码：634-642
- 全文大小：3092 K
文摘
For the compromise of mechanical properties and product cost, the end-chilled sand casting technique was applied to studying the microstructure evolution of A356 Al alloy with cooling rate and the effect of different as-cast microstructures on the subsequent solution-treatment process. The experimental results show that the secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) of primary α(Al), the size of eutectic Si and the volume fraction of Al–Si eutectic are reduced with increasing the cooling rate. Eutectic Si, subjected to solution treatment at 540 °C for 1 h followed by water quenching to room temperature, is completely spheroidized at cooling rate of 2.6 K/s; is partially spheroidized at cooling rate of 0.6 K/s; and is only edge-rounded at cooling rates of 0.22 and 0.12 K/s. Whilst the microhardness is also the maximum at cooling rate of 2.6 K/s. It consequently suggests that subjected to modification by high cooling rate, the eutectic Si is more readily modified, thus shortening the necessary solution time at given solution temperature, i.e., reducing the product cost.