Vehicle luggage rack section bar and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to a vehicle luggage rack section bar and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of manufacturing of vehicle accessories.
Background
The vehicle luggage rack refers to a support which is arranged on the roof or inside a vehicle body and is convenient for carrying luggage. At present, most of luggage racks are made of stainless steel materials, and although the luggage racks made of the stainless steel materials are not easy to rust, the luggage racks are expensive and have large mass, so that the development direction of vehicle light weight is not facilitated.
The aluminum alloy luggage rack has the advantage of light weight, so that the body of a truck, a passenger car and a rail vehicle achieves the effect of light weight, according to the report of the American aluminum society, the weight of the automobile can be reduced by 1kg when 0.45kg of aluminum is used on the automobile, and theoretically, the weight of the aluminum-made automobile can be reduced by about 40% compared with that of a steel automobile. However, as a hotspot of current automobile material research, aluminum alloy materials have poor mechanical properties, low tensile strength, small elongation, too large bending and other problems, so that the current aluminum alloys are rarely used as automobile luggage racks.
Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is as follows: in order to solve the technical problems of low tensile strength, small elongation and overlarge bending degree of the conventional aluminum alloy automobile luggage rack, a vehicle luggage rack section and a preparation method thereof are provided.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows:
a preparation method of a vehicle luggage rack section comprises the following steps:
preparing a casting rod: selecting an aluminum alloy cast rod, wherein the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.15-0.35 wt% of silicon, 0.45-0.65 wt% of magnesium, 0.55-0.80 wt% of copper, 0.50-0.80 wt% of manganese, 0.90-1.20 wt% of chromium, 0.15-0.30 wt% of molybdenum, 0.85-1.30 wt% of nickel, 1.50-2.30 wt% of tungsten, 0.70-1.30 wt% of cobalt, and the balance of aluminum;
heat treatment of the cast rod: heating the aluminum alloy cast rod to 510-540 ℃, and preserving heat for 5-7 h; then cooling the heated aluminum alloy cast rod to below 50 ℃, and quenching under the conditions that the temperature is 550-600 ℃, the heat preservation time is 2-5 h, the transfer time is less than 30s, and the temperature of cooling liquid is less than 35 ℃; then tempering the quenched aluminum alloy cast rod at the temperature of 360-420 ℃ for 2-5 h; this operation enables to obtain a compact structure and good mechanical properties;
extruding: heating an extrusion die to 450-530 ℃, preserving heat for 1-3 hours, heating an extrusion charging barrel to 390-450 ℃, then putting an aluminum alloy cast rod into the extrusion barrel, and pushing the aluminum alloy cast rod in the extrusion barrel to extrude from a die orifice of the extrusion die to form an extruded section;
air cooling: cooling the extruded section at the die orifice of the extrusion die by air cooling so that the temperature of the extruded section at the die orifice is lower than 530 ℃;
straightening: straightening when the section bar is cooled to below 50 ℃;
sawing: sawing the straightened section;
aging: and (3) aging the sawed section at the temperature of 160-190 ℃ for 6-10 h to obtain the automotive luggage rack section.
Preferably, the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.20 to 0.30 wt% of silicon, 0.50 to 0.60 wt% of magnesium, 0.60 to 0.80 wt% of copper, 0.60 to 0.80 wt% of manganese, 0.90 to 1.00 wt% of chromium, 0.20 to 0.30 wt% of molybdenum, 0.90 to 1.10 wt% of nickel, 1.80 to 2.00 wt% of tungsten, 0.80 to 1.00 wt% of cobalt, and the balance of aluminum.
Preferably, the preparation method of the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following steps: putting all components except aluminum in the components of the aluminum alloy cast rod into a smelting furnace, heating to 760-780 ℃ for complete melting, stirring the molten components, then adding an aluminum ingot, smelting at the temperature of 760-780 ℃ for 20-40 minutes, adding a covering agent according to 0.2-0.4 wt% of the metal mass in the smelting furnace, continuing smelting at the temperature of 760-780 ℃ for complete melting of the materials in the smelting furnace, and obtaining a molten liquid; wherein the covering agent is Na3AlF6、Na2CO3A mixture with NaCl;
stirring the molten liquid, and adding ZnCl accounting for 0.2-0.4 wt% of the molten liquid2Refining at the temperature of 760-780 ℃ for 1-2h to obtain an aluminum alloy melt;
casting the obtained molten aluminum alloy into an aluminum alloy cast rod under the conditions that the temperature is 700-730 ℃, the water pressure is 0.05-0.1 MPa, and the speed is 160-200 mm/min.
Preferably, the covering agent consists of Na with the mass ratio of 30-40:30-40:20-303AlF6、NaCO3Mixing with NaCl.
Preferably, the process parameters of the extrusion step are controlled as follows: the extrusion temperature is 440-510 ℃, the extrusion coefficient lambda is 15-30, and the extrusion speed is 5-8/m.min-1。
Preferably, the heating rate of the aluminum alloy cast rod heated to 510-540 ℃ is 10-20 ℃/min.
Preferably, the air cooling air volume is 80-100 m3/min。
Preferably, the step of preparing the cast rod further comprises the step of turning the cast rod.
The invention also provides the vehicle luggage rack section prepared by the process.
The invention also provides a vehicle luggage rack prepared by adopting the vehicle luggage rack section bar.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
the method selects the aluminum alloy with specific composition, processes of heat treatment, extrusion, air cooling, straightening, saw cutting, aging and the like are sequentially carried out on the aluminum alloy cast rod, a proper temperature is selected for each process, particularly, the heat treatment process is sequentially subjected to heating, cooling, quenching and tempering, the alloy structure is adjusted, and the prepared automobile luggage rack section bar has excellent comprehensive performance, the tensile strength is more than or equal to 260MPa, and the specified non-proportional elongation strength is more than or equal to 120N/m2Elongation greater than or equal to 30% and degree of curvature<1mm, the luggage rack prepared by the sectional material has higher stability and is not easy to deform after long-term use.
Detailed Description
The present invention will now be described in further detail.
Example 1
The embodiment provides a preparation method of a vehicle luggage rack section, which comprises the following steps:
preparing a casting rod: selecting an aluminum alloy cast rod, and carrying out leather processing on the cast rod;
the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.2 wt% silicon, 0.6 wt% magnesium, 0.6 wt% copper, 0.8 wt% manganese, 0.9 wt% chromium, 0.30 wt% molybdenum, 0.90 wt% nickel, 2.00 wt% tungsten, 0.8 wt% cobalt, the balance aluminum;
the preparation method of the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following steps: putting all the components except aluminum into a smelting furnace, heating to 770 ℃, completely melting the components, stirring the melted components, then adding an aluminum ingot, smelting at 770 ℃ for 30 minutes, adding a covering agent according to 0.3 wt% of the metal in the smelting furnace, continuously smelting at 770 ℃, and completely melting the materials in the smelting furnace to obtain a molten liquid; wherein the covering agent is Na with the mass ratio of 35:35:303AlF6、NaCO3A mixture with NaCl; stirring the molten liquid, adding ZnCl in an amount of 0.3 wt% based on the mass of the molten liquid2Refining at 770 ℃ for 1.5h to obtain molten aluminum alloy; at a temperature of 720 ℃ under water pressureCasting the obtained molten aluminum alloy into an aluminum alloy cast rod under the conditions of 0.07MPa and the speed of 170 mm/min.
Heat treatment of the cast rod: heating the aluminum alloy cast rod to 530 ℃ at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, and preserving heat for 6 hours; then cooling the heated aluminum alloy cast rod to below 50 ℃, and quenching under the conditions that the temperature is 580 ℃, the heat preservation time is 3 hours, the transfer time is less than 30s, and the temperature of cooling liquid is less than 35 ℃; then tempering the quenched aluminum alloy cast rod at the temperature of 400 ℃ for 3 h;
extruding: heating an extrusion die to 500 ℃, preserving heat for 2 hours, heating an extrusion charging barrel to 400 ℃, then putting an aluminum alloy cast rod into the extrusion barrel, pushing the aluminum alloy cast rod in the extrusion barrel to extrude from a die orifice of the extrusion die, wherein the extrusion temperature is 480 ℃, the extrusion coefficient lambda is 20, and the extrusion speed is 6/m.min-1Forming an extruded profile;
air cooling: cooling the extruded section at the die orifice of the extrusion die by air cooling with the air volume of 90m3Min, enabling the temperature of the extruded section at the die orifice to be lower than 530 ℃;
straightening: straightening when the section bar is cooled to below 50 ℃;
sawing: sawing the straightened section;
aging: and (3) aging the sawed section at the temperature of 180 ℃ for 8h to obtain the automotive luggage rack section.
The vehicle luggage rack section bar prepared in the embodiment is subjected to performance test, and the results are as follows: a tensile strength of 275MPa and a non-proportional elongation of 140N/m2Elongation of 37% and degree of bending<1mm。
Example 2
The embodiment provides a preparation method of a vehicle luggage rack section, which comprises the following steps:
preparing a casting rod: selecting an aluminum alloy cast rod, and carrying out leather processing on the cast rod;
the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.15 wt% silicon, 0.65 wt% magnesium, 0.55 wt% copper, 0.80 wt% manganese, 0.90 wt% chromium, 0.30 wt% molybdenum, 0.85 wt% nickel, 2.30 wt% tungsten, 0.70 wt% cobalt, the balance aluminum;
the preparation method of the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following steps: putting all the components except aluminum into a smelting furnace, heating to 760 ℃ to completely melt the components, stirring the melted components, then adding an aluminum ingot, smelting at the temperature of 760 ℃ for 40 minutes, adding a covering agent according to 0.2 wt% of the metal mass in the smelting furnace, continuing smelting at the temperature of 760 ℃, and completely melting the materials in the smelting furnace to obtain a molten liquid; wherein the covering agent is Na with the mass ratio of 30:40:303AlF6、NaCO3A mixture with NaCl; stirring the molten liquid, adding ZnCl in an amount of 0.4 wt% based on the mass of the molten liquid2Refining at 760 ℃ for 2h to obtain molten aluminum alloy; casting the obtained molten aluminum alloy into an aluminum alloy cast rod under the conditions that the temperature is 700 ℃, the water pressure is 0.05MPa and the speed is 160 mm/min.
Heat treatment of the cast rod: heating the aluminum alloy cast rod to 510 ℃ at a heating rate of 10 ℃/min, and preserving heat for 7 hours; then cooling the heated aluminum alloy cast rod to below 50 ℃, and quenching under the conditions that the temperature is 550 ℃, the heat preservation time is 5 hours, the transfer time is less than 30s, and the temperature of cooling liquid is less than 35 ℃; then tempering the quenched aluminum alloy cast rod at the temperature of 360 ℃ for 5 hours; this operation enables to obtain a compact structure and good mechanical properties;
extruding: heating an extrusion die to 450 ℃, preserving heat for 3 hours, heating an extrusion charging barrel to 390 ℃, then putting an aluminum alloy cast rod into the extrusion barrel, pushing the aluminum alloy cast rod in the extrusion barrel to extrude from a die orifice of the extrusion die, wherein the extrusion temperature is 440 ℃, the extrusion coefficient lambda is 30, and the extrusion speed is 5/m.min-1Forming an extruded profile;
air cooling: cooling the extruded section at the die orifice of the extrusion die by air cooling with air quantity of 80m3Min, enabling the temperature of the extruded section at the die orifice to be lower than 530 ℃;
straightening: straightening when the section bar is cooled to below 50 ℃;
sawing: sawing the straightened section;
aging: and (3) aging the sawed section at the temperature of 160 ℃ for 10h to obtain the automotive luggage rack section.
The vehicle luggage rack section bar prepared in the embodiment is subjected to performance test, and the results are as follows: the tensile strength is 260MPa, and the non-proportional elongation strength is 120N/m2Elongation of 30% and bending<1mm。
Example 3
The embodiment provides a preparation method of a vehicle luggage rack section, which comprises the following steps:
preparing a casting rod: selecting an aluminum alloy cast rod, and carrying out leather processing on the cast rod;
the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.35 wt% silicon, 0.45 wt% magnesium, 0.80 wt% copper, 0.50 wt% manganese, 1.20 wt% chromium, 0.15 wt% molybdenum, 1.30 wt% nickel, 1.50 wt% tungsten, 1.30 wt% cobalt, the balance aluminum;
the preparation method of the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following steps: putting all the components except aluminum into a smelting furnace, heating to 780 ℃ to completely melt the components, stirring the melted components, then adding an aluminum ingot, smelting at the temperature of 780 ℃ for 20 minutes, adding a covering agent according to 0.4 wt% of the metal mass in the smelting furnace, continuing smelting at the temperature of 780 ℃ to completely melt the materials in the smelting furnace to obtain a molten liquid; wherein the covering agent is Na with the mass ratio of 40:40:203AlF6、NaCO3A mixture with NaCl; stirring the molten liquid, adding ZnCl in an amount of 0.2 wt% based on the mass of the molten liquid2Refining at 780 ℃ for 1h to obtain molten aluminum alloy; casting the obtained molten aluminum alloy into an aluminum alloy cast rod under the conditions that the temperature is 730 ℃, the water pressure is 0.1MPa and the speed is 200 mm/min.
Heat treatment of the cast rod: heating the aluminum alloy cast rod to 540 ℃ at a heating rate of 20 ℃/min, and preserving heat for 5 hours; then cooling the heated aluminum alloy cast rod to below 50 ℃, and quenching under the conditions that the temperature is 600 ℃, the heat preservation time is 2 hours, the transfer time is less than 30s, and the temperature of cooling liquid is less than 35 ℃; then tempering the quenched aluminum alloy cast rod at the temperature of 420 ℃ for 2 hours; this operation enables to obtain a compact structure and good mechanical properties;
extruding: heating an extrusion die to 530 ℃, preserving heat for 1h, heating an extrusion charging barrel to 450 ℃, then putting an aluminum alloy cast rod into the extrusion barrel, pushing the aluminum alloy cast rod in the extrusion barrel to extrude from a die orifice of the extrusion die, wherein the extrusion temperature is 510 ℃, the extrusion coefficient lambda is 15, and the extrusion speed is 8/m.min-1Forming an extruded profile;
air cooling: cooling the extruded section at the die orifice of the extrusion die by air cooling with the air volume of 100m3Min, enabling the temperature of the extruded section at the die orifice to be lower than 530 ℃;
straightening: straightening when the section bar is cooled to below 50 ℃;
sawing: sawing the straightened section;
aging: and (3) aging the sawed section at the temperature of 190 ℃ for 6h to obtain the automotive luggage rack section.
The vehicle luggage rack section bar prepared in the embodiment is subjected to performance test, and the results are as follows: the tensile strength was 282MPa, and the non-proportional elongation was 151N/m2Elongation of 45% and bending<1mm。
Example 4
The embodiment provides a preparation method of a vehicle luggage rack section, which comprises the following steps:
preparing a casting rod: selecting an aluminum alloy cast rod, and carrying out leather processing on the cast rod;
the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following components in parts by weight: 0.30 wt% silicon, 0.50 wt% magnesium, 0.80 wt% copper, 0.60 wt% manganese, 1.00 wt% chromium, 0.20 wt% molybdenum, 1.10 wt% nickel, 1.80 wt% tungsten, 1.00 wt% cobalt, the balance aluminum;
the preparation method of the aluminum alloy cast rod comprises the following steps: adding all the components except aluminum into a smelting furnace, heating to 760 ℃, completely melting, stirring the molten components, adding aluminum ingots, smelting at 760 ℃ for 30 minutes, and smelting according to the metal in the smelting furnaceAdding covering agent with the mass of 0.3 wt%, continuously smelting at the temperature of 760 ℃, and completely melting the materials in the smelting furnace to obtain molten liquid; wherein the covering agent is Na with the mass ratio of 40:30:303AlF6、NaCO3A mixture with NaCl; stirring the molten liquid, adding ZnCl in an amount of 0.3 wt% based on the mass of the molten liquid2Refining at 760 ℃ for 1.5h to obtain molten aluminum alloy; casting the obtained molten aluminum alloy into an aluminum alloy cast rod under the conditions that the temperature is 710 ℃, the water pressure is 0.08MPa and the speed is 180 mm/min.
Heat treatment of the cast rod: heating the aluminum alloy cast rod to 530 ℃ at a heating rate of 15 ℃/min, and preserving heat for 6 hours; then cooling the heated aluminum alloy cast rod to below 50 ℃, and quenching under the conditions that the temperature is 570 ℃, the heat preservation time is 3 hours, the transfer time is less than 30s, and the temperature of cooling liquid is less than 35 ℃; then tempering the quenched aluminum alloy cast rod at the temperature of 380 ℃ for 3 hours;
extruding: heating an extrusion die to 480 ℃, preserving heat for 2 hours, heating an extrusion charging barrel to 420 ℃, then putting an aluminum alloy cast rod into the extrusion barrel, pushing the aluminum alloy cast rod in the extrusion barrel to extrude from a die orifice of the extrusion die, wherein the extrusion temperature is 480 ℃, the extrusion coefficient lambda is 20, and the extrusion speed is 7/m.min-1Forming an extruded profile;
air cooling: cooling the extruded section at the die orifice of the extrusion die by air cooling with the air volume of 90m3Min, enabling the temperature of the extruded section at the die orifice to be lower than 530 ℃;
straightening: straightening when the section bar is cooled to below 50 ℃;
sawing: sawing the straightened section;
aging: and (3) aging the sawed section at the temperature of 170 ℃ for 7h to obtain the automotive luggage rack section.
The vehicle luggage rack section bar prepared in the embodiment is subjected to performance test, and the results are as follows: a tensile strength of 275MPa and a non-proportional elongation of 138N/m2Elongation of 39% and bending<1mm。
In light of the foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, many modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the content of the specification, and must be determined according to the scope of the claims.