Journal
ARCHIVES OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 1368-1380Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1016/j.acme.2019.08.007
Keywords
7075; Aluminum; Cooling; Friction stir processing; hybrid; Superplasticity
Funding
- project ORSP/R&D/SRP/2015/SPVP under SRP from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51574196]
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing (NPU, China) [2019-QZ-01]
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Friction stir processing (FSP) with active cooling approach can be considered as one of the variants of the FSP in order to enhance superplastic behavior. In this study, high strength AA7075 alloy was subjected to normal and hybrid FSP at different cooling medium such as compressed air, water, and CO2 to obtain a variety of cooling rate during the process. Hybrid FSP samples were produced without any processing flaws at a lower processing temperature in comparison to normal FSP sample. Among the hybrid FSP samples, CO2 cooling sample was produced at the lowest processing temperature. Optical and electron microscopy confirmed that microstructures of all the samples were characterized by fine equiaxed grain in the stir zone (SZ). Reduction of grain size in hybrid FSP samples was found due to higher cooling rate, which prevented the coarsening of grains in the SZ. Improvement in grain refinement was observed in the order of normal (4.12 mu m), compressed air (3 mu m), water (2.64 mu m), CO2 (1.96 mu m) FSP samples. All FSP samples obtained the superplastic elongation. The highest elongation of 572% was achieved for CO2 cooling sample due to the finest grained microstructure produced at the lowest heat input during FSP. (C) 2019 Politechnika Wroclawska. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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