Interface Characteristics and Bonding Performance of the Corrugated Mg/Al Clad Plate

In this paper, a corrugated Mg/Al clad plate was successfully manufactured by an upper corrugated roller and a lower flat roller at 400 degrees C rolling temperature and 35% reduction ratio. Interface bonding performance of the corrugated Mg/Al clad plate was studied by tensile-shear test. The finite element method was used to simulate the corrugated rolling process. Experiment results revealed that the Mg/Al clad plate fabricated by corrugated roller had a tight bonding interface, no crack, and no intermetallic compounds. The transverse tensile-shear strength at the trough position reached 31.22 MPa, and the tensile-shear strength at the peak position was 17.61 MPa. It can be found that the stress and strain of interface metal at the trough position were the largest through numerical simulation results. Two cross-shear zones can be formed in the rolling deformation zone of the corrugated Mg/Al clad plate, which can accelerate the metal plastic flow and promote interface close bonding.

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In this study, a corrugated Mg/Al clad plate was successfully manufactured and its interface bonding performance was investigated. Numerical simulations and experimental results showed that the transverse stress and strain of the interface metal were the largest at the trough position, and the clad plate fabricated by corrugated roller had a tight bonding interface.