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Creep behaviour of Al-3Mg-0,2Sc alloy processed by ECAP method
Dvořák, Jiří ; Král, Petr ; Sklenička, Václav
Ternary aluminium alloy Al-3Mg-0.2Sc was subjected to equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) at room temperature to refine its original coarse grain size. For this purpose the ECAP die was used which had a 90° angle between the die channels. By application of this method an ultrafine-grained microstructure was achieved with the grain size ~ 0.3mm after 8 ECAP passes by route BC. Subsequent compression constant stress creep tests were conducted at 473 K and in the applied stress range of 16–40 MPa. It was found, that resulting microstructure of this alloy leads to a decrease of minimum creep rate by an order of magnitude in comparison with creep behaviour of an ultrafine – grained ECAP pure aluminium. Further, the creep behaviour of Al-3Mg-0.2Sc alloy at lower stresses indicates a possible occurrence of the threshold stress for creep.
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Influence of Microstructure Changes on the Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium Processed by ECAP Method
Král, Petr ; Dvořák, Jiří ; Svoboda, Milan ; Sklenička, Václav
Extremely coarse – grained aluminium (99.99 %) was subjected to severe plastic deformation (Equal-Channel Angular Pressing) at room temperature. The properties of the ECAP material may considerably differ from properties of material with a standard coarse grain size. The largest changes of microstructure take place during the first four ECAP passes. Thus, the microstructure after twelve passes consists of roughly equiaxed grains (~??m) with high fraction of high angle boundaries (~70%). In this work the behaviour of ECAP material with different number of passes at the tensile and creep tests has been studied. It is shown that ECAP aluminum provides a significant increase of the ultimate strength, however, there is low strain hardening during tensile deformation. The creep resistance of aluminum increased considerably already after one ECAP pass. However, repetitive ECAP pressing lead to a noticeable degrease in the creep properties. ECAP microstructure was examined in terms of the
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Interaction between TiAl melt and coated oxide refractories
Dočekalová, Kateřina ; Dlouhý, Antonín ; Zemčík, L. ; Fiala, J.
The present study focuses on reactions between ceramic crucibles and molten TiAl intermetallics. Coating strategies are investigated that exhibit a potential in slowing down the decomposition of the crucible wall. Uncoated crucibles (system TiAl melt - Al2O3 crucible) and crucibles with the coat (system TiAl melt - CaO coat - Al2O3 crucible) were used in melting and casting experiments. The reference state of the coated crucible before the melting trial was also investigated. Results of the SEM, EDAX and X-ray diffraction analysis contributed to the identification of the reaction zone and its chemical composition. The melt contamination with oxide inclusions results from the erosion process in which individual components of the melt diffuse along grain boundaries of the refractory and activate chemical reactions that decompose the crucible wall. Assessment of thermodynamic parameters associated with the chemical reactions helped in identifying the nature of the erosion process.
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Stress-free and stress-assisted aging of NiTi shape memory alloys
Dlouhý, Antonín ; Bojda, Ondřej ; Fiala, J.
The present work investigates coherent Ni4Ti3 precipitates in a Ti-50,7at%Ni shape memory alloy after different thermo-mechanical treatments. The study is based on the quantitative TEM (transmission electron microscopy) image analysis using the ACC (Adaptive Contrast Control) programme. The attention is given to a number, size and volume fraction of individual crystallographic variants of the Ni4Ti3 precipitates. Preliminary results suggest that, after common heat treatments, the precipitation of Ni4Ti3 particles is inhomogeneous not only as far as the density of particles in the original B2 grains is concerned but also with respect to the distribution of the crystallographic particle variants. The possible influence of the heterogeneous Ni4Ti3 precipitation on the characteristics of the martensitic transformations B2-R-B19’ is discussed.
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Vakuová metalurgie intermetalik TiAl
Zemčík, L. ; Dlouhý, Antonín ; Król, S. ; Pražmowski, M.
To be able to melt successfully type gamma TiAl alloys it is absolutely necessary to solve the fundamental metallurgical problems associated with the reactions between the melt and the refractories of crucibles and ceramic moulds, with the reactions between the melt and residual gases in the furnace chamber, and with the evaporation of aluminium from the melt. The paper deals with the physico - chemical analyses of the above processes and gives their evaluation based on the results of experimental melts of the type of Ti48Al2Cr2Nb1B (at.%) obtained in vacuum induction furnace. The work also gives the results of oxidation tests for the Ti48Al2Cr2Nb1B(at.%) alloy.
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Influence of Microstructure Changes on the Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium Processed by ECAP Method
Král, Petr ; Dvořák, Jiří ; Svoboda, Milan ; Sklenička, Václav
Extremely coarse – grained aluminium (99.99 %) was subjected to severe plastic deformation (Equal-Channel Angular Pressing) at room temperature. The properties of the ECAP material may considerably differ from properties of material with a standard coarse grain size. The largest changes of microstructure take place during the first four ECAP passes. Thus, the microstructure after twelve passes consists of roughly equiaxed grains (~m) with high fraction of high angle boundaries (~70%). In this work the behaviour of ECAP material with different number of passes at the tensile and creep tests has been studied. It is shown that ECAP aluminum provides a significant increase of the ultimate strength, however, there is low strain hardening during tensile deformation. The creep resistance of aluminum increased considerably already after one ECAP pass. However, repetitive ECAP pressing lead to a noticeable degrease in the creep properties. ECAP microstructure was examined in terms of the inhomogeneity. The results indicate that an inhomogeneity of the ECAP microstructure may influence the creep behaviour of the ECAP material.
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