Characterisation and Modelling of Intermetallic Phase Growth of Aluminium and Titanium in a Tailored Forming Process Chain

authored by: N. Heimes, H. Wester, O. Golovko, C. Klose, H. J. Maier, J. Uhe
Abstract: The combination of aluminium (AlSi₁MgMn) and titanium (Ti6Al6-4V) allows producing components with high lightweight potential and at the same time high strength and chemical resistance. Upon joining of dissimilar materials, intermetallic phases (IMP) can form. These are comparatively hard and brittle and represent a weak point in the hybrid component. Along the process chain for manufacturing a hybrid bearing bushing made of AlSi₁MgMn and Ti6Al-4V by co-extrusion, die forging and heat treatment, the joining zone is exposed to high thermal loads. As a result, the individual process steps can lead to the growth of IMP reducing the compound’s quality. In order to investigate the formation and the growth of IMP at process-relevant temperatures and contact times in detail, experimental analogy tests were carried out. Subsequently, the specimens were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Due to the constant temperature and the respective contact time, the diffusion coefficient was calculated from the determined phase thickness using the Einstein-Smoluchowski equation. This allowed describing the diffusion coefficients as a function of temperature and implementing them into a finite element model via a subroutine. To validate the subroutine, further tests were carried out and the calculated phase thickness was validated with experimentally determined phase thickness, which exhibited good correlation.
Organisation(s): Institute of Metal Forming and Metal Forming Machines
Institute of Materials Science
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 32-41
No. of pages: 10
Publication date: 02.02.2023
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous), Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18318-8_4 (Access: Closed)
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BibTeX

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title = "Characterisation and Modelling of Intermetallic Phase Growth of Aluminium and Titanium in a Tailored Forming Process Chain",
abstract = "The combination of aluminium (AlSi1MgMn) and titanium (Ti6Al6-4V) allows producing components with high lightweight potential and at the same time high strength and chemical resistance. Upon joining of dissimilar materials, intermetallic phases (IMP) can form. These are comparatively hard and brittle and represent a weak point in the hybrid component. Along the process chain for manufacturing a hybrid bearing bushing made of AlSi1MgMn and Ti6Al-4V by co-extrusion, die forging and heat treatment, the joining zone is exposed to high thermal loads. As a result, the individual process steps can lead to the growth of IMP reducing the compound{\textquoteright}s quality. In order to investigate the formation and the growth of IMP at process-relevant temperatures and contact times in detail, experimental analogy tests were carried out. Subsequently, the specimens were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Due to the constant temperature and the respective contact time, the diffusion coefficient was calculated from the determined phase thickness using the Einstein-Smoluchowski equation. This allowed describing the diffusion coefficients as a function of temperature and implementing them into a finite element model via a subroutine. To validate the subroutine, further tests were carried out and the calculated phase thickness was validated with experimentally determined phase thickness, which exhibited good correlation.",
keywords = "Aluminium-titanium compound, Finite element method, Intermetallic phases, Tailored forming",
author = "N. Heimes and H. Wester and O. Golovko and C. Klose and Maier, {H. J.} and J. Uhe",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. The results presented in this paper were obtained within the Collaborative Research Centre 1153/2 “Process chain to produce hybrid high performance components by Tailored Forming” in the subproject A01, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—252662854. The authors thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) for financial support of this project.",
year = "2023",
month = feb,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-18318-8_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-031-18317-1",
series = "Lecture Notes in Production Engineering",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "32--41",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Production Engineering",
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