Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 1-14Publisher
JOURNAL MATER SCI TECHNOL
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2020.11.035
Keywords
Porosity; Large solidification intervals; Travelling magnetic fields; Sequential solidification; Al-Cu-based alloys
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0403804]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51425402, 51671073]
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The study shows that downward magnetic fields can effectively reduce porosity in alloys, optimizing the microstructure and mechanical performance. Conversely, upward magnetic fields have negative effects on these aspects.
Porosity is a major casting defect in alloys with large solidification intervals due to the disordered microstructure and broad mushy zones, which decreases badly the mechanical performance. Hence, finding ways to effectively reduce the porosity, further to optimize microstructure and mechanical performance is of great significance. In this regard, the Al-Cu-based alloys with large solidification intervals are continuously processed by coupling the travelling magnetic fields (TMF) with sequential solidification. Additionally, experiments combined with simulations are utilized to comprehensively analyze the mechanism of TMF on the reduction in porosity, including shrinkage porosity and gas porosity, from different perspectives. Current findings determine that downward TMF can effectually optimize together the porosity, microstructure and performance, by inducing the strong long-range directional melt flows, stabilizing the mushy zones, and optimizing the feeding channels and exhaust paths, as well as increasing the driving force of degassing process. Eventually, downward TMF can increase the ultimate tensile strength, yield strength, elongation and hardness from 175.2 MPa, 87.5 MPa, 13.3 % and 80.2 kg mm(-2) without TMF to 218.6 MPa, 109.3 MPa, 15.6 % and 95.5 kg mm(-2), while reduce the total porosity from 0.95 % to 0.18 %. However, Up-TMF exerts negative effects on the optimization of porosity, microstructure and performance due to the opposite strong directional magnetic force and melt flows. Overall, our study provides an effective way to optimize together the porosity, microstructure and mechanical performance, and reveals their relationship, as well as details the relevant mechanisms of TMF on the porosity reduction from different perspectives. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The editorial office of Journal of Materials Science & Technology.
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