Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND PERFORMANCE
Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 2876-2889Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11665-021-05616-4
Keywords
Al alloys; brazing; corrosion; failure analysis; non-destructive evaluation (NDE); polarization; warm forming
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- Dana Canada Corporation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [APCPJ 447970-13]
- Canada Research Chairs Secretariat
- Ontario Research Fund
- Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium
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The study evaluates the effects of sheet temper, forming conditions, and post-braze microstructure on the corrosion behavior of Al alloy heat exchangers. Different forming conditions lead to different corrosion behaviors in the fabricated heat exchanger samples, and no clear relationship between corrosion initiation sites and local microstructure was observed in the accelerated test. The results show that liquid film migration during brazing can cause localized corrosion and greater variability in polarization measurements.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of sheet temper, forming conditions, and the resultant post-braze microstructure on the corrosion behavior of Al alloy heat exchangers. Accelerated corrosion tests were performed by flowing a corrosive water solution through brazed heat exchanger samples fabricated from O and H24 temper sheet formed between room temperature and 250 degrees C. Sheet perforations within the brazed samples were found to be concentrated at the coolant channel inlets, due to crevice corrosion, or around other formed features within the coolant channel, which was attributed to erosion corrosion. A clear relationship between corrosion initiation sites and local microstructure was not observed in the accelerated test. Potentiodynamic polarization measurements were performed using the corrosive water solution and sheet samples pre-strained to 4 and 10% and subjected to a simulated brazing heat treatment. The average corrosion current density was the same for the two conditions, but liquid film migration occurred during brazing in the sample strained to 4%, resulting in localized corrosion and greater variability in the polarization measurements. It is concluded that warm forming does not impair the corrosion resistance of H24 temper sheet, but the corrosion resistance of brazed samples fabricated from O temper sheet is altered by warm forming.
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