Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 291, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2021.117045
Keywords
Solid-state cladding; Additive friction stir deposition; Friction stir welding; Residual stress; Distortion; Automotive
Funding
- Poling challenge program from Ford Motor Company [POL0006]
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Additive friction stir deposition can produce high-quality cladding without porosity even in thin substrates as thin as 1.4 mm, preserving the original strength and formability of the substrate. Despite mild global substrate distortion during cooling, the system reconfigures itself to minimize potential energy and reduce residual stress.
Additive friction stir deposition is an innovative solid-state additive manufacturing process that creates near-net-shape 3D components based on deformation bonding rather than melting and solidification. Here, we employ this process for selective cladding on thin Al-Mg-Si sheet metals and evaluate its feasibility for automotive manufacturing based on the cladding quality and substrate distortion. We show that under optimal conditions, additive friction stir deposition can produce high-quality cladding without surface or interface porosity even if the substrate is as thin as 1.4 mm. In addition, the high strength and good formability of the original Al-Mg-Si substrate are preserved in the post-cladding reinforced structure, which exhibits an ultimate tensile strength of 250 MPa and an elongation of 30 %. Despite the mechanical forces imposed by the tool during deposition, no local buckling or wrinkling is observed in the thin substrate. During cooling, however, in situ monitoring shows that mild, global substrate distortion gradually develops. Upon unclamping, the cladding-on-plate system reconfigures itself to minimize the potential energy, leading to an anticlastic curvature. Based on the curvature measurement and classical lamination theory, this work provides the first quantification of the residual stress caused by this newly-developed additive technology, in which the maximum tensile stress is estimated to be around 40 MPa in the rectangular reinforced structure and the interface mismatch strain is 7.37 x 10(-4). Both values are low thanks to the solid-state nature of the process.
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