CN115055699A - Particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device and method - Google Patents

Particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device and method Download PDF

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CN115055699A
CN115055699A CN202210726679.7A CN202210726679A CN115055699A CN 115055699 A CN115055699 A CN 115055699A CN 202210726679 A CN202210726679 A CN 202210726679A CN 115055699 A CN115055699 A CN 115055699A
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Abstract

The invention discloses a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device and a method, which comprise a molten drop generating system, a reinforced particle powder feeding device and an electric arc heat source, wherein the molten drop generating system comprises an air pressure driving unit, a crucible smelting unit, a labyrinth runner assembly and a graphite nozzle and is used for generating controllable molten drop flow, and a flow control assembly based on the labyrinth runner ensures the stability and controllability of jet flow and jet state. The reinforced particle powder feeding device is used for directional/quantitative conveying of particle reinforced phases, and the double-nozzle powder feeding mode is favorable for ensuring the uniformity of particle implantation. In the forming process, the aluminum molten drops and the particle reinforced phase are jointly sent into an electric arc molten pool, along with the movement and solidification of the electric arc molten pool, the particle reinforced phase can be dispersed in the aluminum matrix to form the composite material component in a way of gradual/layer-by-layer accumulation, and finally, the high-quality, high-efficiency and low-cost additive manufacturing of the aluminum alloy/particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material component is realized.

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Particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device and method
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of additive manufacturing, and particularly relates to a device and a method for manufacturing a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material by a molten drop composite electric arc additive.
Background
The additive manufacturing (also called 3D printing) technology is a non-traditional processing technology, and is an advanced manufacturing technology integrating light, electricity, electromechanics, computers, numerical control and new materials, which arose in the 90 s. The core idea is to perform two-dimensional dispersion on a three-dimensional part to form lamellar data, gradually combine discrete forming materials together according to the layered data of a three-dimensional CAD model of the part to form layered sections, and then pile up layer by layer to form a solid part, without a die, directly manufacture the part, and can greatly shorten the development period.
According to the form of a heat source, the mainstream metal additive manufacturing method is mainly divided into selective laser melting, selective electron beam melting, laser (melting) deposition and arc (melting) deposition. The mainstream metal additive manufacturing method can be divided into powder laying forming, powder feeding forming, wire feeding forming and droplet forming according to the raw material form.
At present, additive manufacturing modes suitable for rapid forming of aluminum-based components mainly comprise selective laser melting, selective electron beam melting and arc (melting) deposition. In view of the characteristic that an aluminum alloy molten pool is extremely easy to oxidize, the laser (melting) deposition technology is difficult to ensure the bonding strength between layers of the aluminum-based component, and the solid laser (melting) deposition technology is not suitable for forming the aluminum-based component. The arc heat source, especially the variable polarity arc heat source, has special cathode cleaning function to break and clean the oxide film on the surface of the aluminum alloy molten pool, so as to ensure high-quality metallurgical bonding between layers. Meanwhile, the arc heat source has high melting efficiency, and is beneficial to realizing high-efficiency additive manufacturing of the aluminum-based component.
Because the aluminum alloy has the advantages of low density, high specific strength, high thermal conductivity, wide sources and the like, the aluminum alloy plays an extremely important role in the industrial field and the daily life field of people. However, the aluminum alloy has low surface hardness and poor friction and abrasion resistance, so that the application of the aluminum alloy in occasions with specific requirements on abrasion resistance is greatly limited. Therefore, the ceramic particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material technology becomes a key technical route for solving the problem of insufficient wear resistance of the aluminum alloy. The ceramic particles have an extremely high hardness and thus have excellent frictional wear resistance.
The existing additive manufacturing scheme of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material mainly comprises three types: the manufacturing method comprises a high-energy beam (laser and electron beam) selective melting additive manufacturing technology based on a nanoparticle reinforced aluminum-based composite powder technology, an arc additive manufacturing technology based on an interlayer ceramic particle coating technology and an arc fuse additive manufacturing technology based on a composite wire manufacturing technology. In the first technique (high-energy beam selective melting additive manufacturing technique based on the nanoparticle reinforced aluminum-based composite powder technique), the abrasion resistance of the aluminum matrix is not significantly improved due to the low mixing ratio of the nano ceramic particles and the small (nano) particle size of the high-hardness ceramic particles. Meanwhile, the forming efficiency of the high-energy beam selective melting additive manufacturing technology is low, so that the forming requirement of medium-large aluminum-based components is difficult to meet. The second technique (arc additive manufacturing technique based on interlayer ceramic particle coating technique and arc fuse additive manufacturing technique based on composite filamentation technique) has limitations in that the forming efficiency is low and the thickness of the strengthened layer is small. The high efficiency advantage of arc deposition is greatly reduced because the interlayer coating process requires each layer to be cooled to near room temperature and the next layer of deposition must ensure complete volatilization of the solvent components in the mixture applied to the surface of the deposited layer. The main limitation of the third technique (arc fuse additive manufacturing technique based on composite wire manufacturing) is the preparation of special wires. Compared with the traditional welding wire, the plasticity of the aluminum-based material compounded by the ceramic particles is usually obviously reduced, so the technical difficulty of wire making is solved.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing a device and a method for manufacturing a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material by molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing, aiming at the defects in the prior art, so as to realize the high-quality, high-efficiency and low-cost rapid manufacturing of a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material component.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device comprises a molten drop generating system, wherein the molten drop generating system is used for generating aluminum melt jet flow and comprises a smelting crucible, a water-cooling top cover assembly is arranged at the upper part of the smelting crucible, the lower part of the smelting crucible is connected with a spray head through a flow control assembly, a periodic labyrinth flow channel structure is arranged inside the flow control assembly, an electric arc heat source and a reinforced particle powder feeding device are arranged on one side of the spray head and used for generating an electric arc molten pool, the reinforced particle powder feeding device is used for mixing gas and reinforced particles to form a powder flow, the aluminum melt jet flow is dispersed into molten drops and then enters the electric arc molten pool together with the powder flow, a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material deposition layer is formed along with the movement and solidification of the electric arc molten pool, and a target particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material component is formed through channel-by channel/layer-by layer deposition.
Specifically, the water-cooling top cover assembly comprises a water-cooling top cover, a cooling water inlet, a cooling water outlet, a material adding inlet and an air inlet/outlet are formed in the water-cooling top cover, a top cover water-cooling cavity is formed in the water-cooling top cover, a cooling system is arranged between the cooling water inlet and the cooling water outlet, and cooling water enters the top cover water-cooling cavity through the cooling water inlet and returns to the cooling system from the cooling water outlet.
Furthermore, a pressure sensor and a laser distance sensor are arranged on the water-cooling top cover and are respectively connected with the air pressure driving system.
Furthermore, a top cover radiating fin is arranged between the lower side of the water-cooling top cover and the smelting crucible, a high-temperature sealing ring is arranged between the top cover radiating fin and the smelting crucible, an induction heating coil is arranged outside the smelting crucible, and the induction heating coil is electrically connected with an induction heating power supply.
Specifically, a filtering flange is arranged at the bottom of the smelting crucible, and a ceramic filter is arranged between the smelting crucible and the filtering flange; the bottom of the filtering flange is provided with an adapter flange, the flow control assembly is arranged between the filtering flange and the adapter flange, the flow control assembly, the filtering flange and the smelting crucible are arranged in a laminated mode; the bottom of the adapter flange is connected with the spray head, a heating sleeve is arranged outside the spray head, and the heating sleeve is electrically connected with the temperature controller.
Specifically, a crucible temperature measuring hole is formed in the smelting crucible, a crucible thermocouple is arranged in the crucible temperature measuring hole, a nozzle temperature measuring hole is formed in the nozzle, a nozzle thermocouple is arranged in the nozzle temperature measuring hole, and the crucible thermocouple and the nozzle thermocouple are respectively and electrically connected with a temperature controller.
Specifically, the flow control assembly comprises a flow passage inlet protection plate and a flow passage outlet protection plate, and a labyrinth flow control plate is arranged between the flow passage inlet protection plate and the flow passage outlet protection plate; the runner inlet protection sheet is provided with a runner inlet and an inlet sedimentation tank, and the bottom surface of the inlet sedimentation tank is lower than the upper edge of the runner inlet; the labyrinth flow control sheet is provided with a flow control sheet inlet, the flow control sheet inlet is connected with the flow control sheet outlet through a labyrinth flow passage, and the labyrinth flow passage has a labyrinth bent periodic structure; the runner outlet protection sheet is provided with a runner outlet.
Specifically, the enhanced particle powder feeding device comprises a powder feeder, the powder feeder is connected with a powder feeding nozzle through a powder feeding pipe, and the powder feeding nozzle is fixed on the arc welding torch through a powder feeding nozzle clamp.
Specifically, a substrate is arranged below the spray head and connected with a three-dimensional motion platform.
In another aspect of the present invention, a method for manufacturing a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material by droplet composite arc additive manufacturing, using the apparatus for manufacturing a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material by droplet composite arc additive manufacturing according to claim 1, comprises the steps of:
s1, designing a three-dimensional model of the target part according to the shape and the application condition of the target part;
s2, designing the composite material according to the three-dimensional model of the part obtained in the step S1 and in combination with the functional requirements of the target part, wherein the design comprises the matrix material model selection, the reinforced particle model selection and the reinforced particle implantation proportion setting of the composite material;
s3, determining a forming path file according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the step S1, the composite material determined in the step S2, the deposition rate, the layer height, the moving speed and the arc current process parameters, wherein the deposition rate in the forming path file is 100-300 mm 3 The layer height is 1-4 mm, the moving speed is 3-15 mm/s, and the arc current is 100-500A;
s4, calculating the amount of aluminum alloy and particle reinforced phase required by forming according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the step S1, the composite material determined in the step S2, the forming path planned in the step S3 and the number of target parts;
s5, forming the easily oxidized aluminum alloy material in an inert atmosphere, wherein the water content and the oxygen content in the atmosphere are not more than 100ppm, loading the aluminum alloy material prepared in the step S4 into a melting crucible, and assembling a molten drop generating system;
s6, starting a cooling system, setting the final heating temperature to be 650-750 ℃, and the heating rate to be 10-100 ℃/min, and heating the molten drop generating system in the step S5;
s7, after the molten drop generating system in the step S6 is heated to a preset temperature, verifying whether the pressure detection function, the air pressure loading function and the laser liquid level measurement function of the molten drop generating system operate normally, then verifying the jet state and the jet flow rate, and repeating the steps S5-S7 if the jet state is unstable or the flow rate error exceeds 10% or the flow rate fluctuation is more than 5% in a preset pressure range;
s8, printing the target member according to the forming path file obtained in the step S3;
s9, carrying out real-time topography monitoring in the printing process of the step S8, if the forming precision deviates from the size requirement of the part or a lap joint defect occurs, suspending forming, correcting related data in the forming path file obtained in the step S3, and repeating the step S9 until the part is manufactured;
and S10, after the printing of the target part is finished in the step S9, removing parts which do not belong to the part to obtain the target part.
Compared with the prior art, the invention at least has the following beneficial effects:
the device for manufacturing the particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material by the molten drop composite electric arc additive can realize high-quality, high-efficiency and low-cost additive manufacturing of the aluminum alloy and the particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material. The molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing system replaces a wire feeding mechanism in a traditional electric arc fuse additive manufacturing system by an independent molten drop generating system, so that a material adding link and a heat input link in the electric arc additive manufacturing process can be independently regulated and controlled. The introduction of the molten drop generating system can overcome the defect of strong wire-arc coupling inherent in the traditional electric arc fuse wire additive manufacturing technology, and has important significance for further improving the electric arc additive manufacturing efficiency and quality. Meanwhile, a reinforced particle powder feeding device is introduced into the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite droplet composite electric arc additive manufacturing device provided by the invention, and the device can implant reinforced particles into an electric arc molten pool in a powder-carrying manner, so that the electric arc additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite is realized. The invention improves the inherent defects of the electric arc additive manufacturing to a certain extent, and is a supplement to the electric arc additive manufacturing technology; meanwhile, the invention can realize the additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material and provides a new mode for the electric arc additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced metal matrix composite material.
Furthermore, the molten drop generating system is provided with a water-cooling top cover, the water-cooling top cover is provided with a cooling water inlet and a cooling water outlet, and a top cover water-cooling cavity capable of leading water is designed in the top cover. The water cooling design can ensure that a sensing device arranged on the water cooling top cover is at a safe working temperature; the water-cooling top cover is provided with an air inlet/outlet which can charge air or exhaust air to the interior of the molten drop generating system so as to achieve the purpose of pressurization or depressurization; a material adding inlet is designed on the water-cooling top cover, so that metal materials can be added into the molten drop generating system in the forming process, and the added materials include but are not limited to small-size blocks, small-size bars, wires and powdery materials, so that the requirement of continuous forming of medium-size and large-size parts or the requirement of adjusting the chemical components of the materials in the forming process can be met.
Furthermore, the water-cooling top cover is provided with a pressure sensor and a laser distance sensor so as to realize real-time measurement of the air pressure in the crucible and the liquid level of the melt in the crucible and feed back real-time data to the air pressure driving system. After receiving the air pressure information and the melt liquid level information, the air pressure driving system can further calculate the pressure of the melt at the bottom of the crucible, so that the accurate control of the air pressure driving system on the pressure at the bottom of the crucible is realized.
Furthermore, a top cover radiating fin is arranged between the lower part of the water-cooling top cover and the smelting crucible, and a high-temperature sealing ring is arranged between the top cover radiating fin and the smelting crucible. The arrangement of the top cover radiating fins can prevent excessive heat from being taken away through the water-cooling top cover. When the temperature of the crucible rises, the threaded connection part between the melting crucible and the radiating fin is loosened due to the difference of the thermal expansion coefficients of the materials, and the high-temperature sealing ring has the function of generating axial expansion after the temperature rises, so that reliable high-temperature sealing between the top cover radiating fin and the melting crucible is realized. And the periphery of the smelting crucible is provided with an induction heating coil for realizing the induction heating of the metal material in the smelting crucible.
Furthermore, a filtering flange is arranged at the bottom of the smelting crucible, and a ceramic filter is arranged between the smelting crucible and the filtering flange. The ceramic filter plate is used for filtering out an oxide film on the surface of the aluminum alloy melt and solid impurities in the aluminum alloy melt. The bottom of the filtering flange is provided with a switching flange, a flow control assembly is arranged between the filtering flange and the switching flange, the flow control assembly, the filtering flange and the smelting crucible are arranged in a laminated mode. The laminated arrangement has the advantages that the sealing surfaces between the parts can obtain similar pretightening force, the sealing is reliable, the assembly is simple and convenient, and the complementary tightening of the sealing surfaces in a high-temperature state is facilitated. The bottom of the adapter flange is connected with the spray head, a heating sleeve is arranged outside the spray head, and the heating sleeve is electrically connected with the temperature controller. The adapter flange has the advantages that the connection mode is changed, the upper part of the adapter flange is in bolt connection (the smelting crucible, the filtering flange, the flow control assembly and the adapter flange form a whole), and the lower part of the adapter flange is in threaded connection, so that the nozzle is convenient to install and replace. The heating sleeve aims at realizing the heating of the spray head, and the temperature controller is used for controlling the heating process.
Further, a crucible temperature measuring hole is formed in the melting crucible, and a crucible thermocouple is arranged in the crucible temperature measuring hole; a nozzle temperature measuring hole is formed in a nozzle at the bottom of the smelting crucible, and a nozzle thermocouple is arranged in the nozzle temperature measuring hole; the crucible thermocouple and the nozzle thermocouple are both electrically connected with the temperature controller. The design of the temperature measuring hole is used for measuring the temperature of the melting crucible and the spray head, and the thermocouple does not need to be contacted with the aluminum alloy melt in the melting crucible in the temperature measuring process, so that the pollution of the aluminum alloy melt and the corrosion of a temperature measuring element (thermocouple) caused by temperature measurement are avoided. The temperature controller collects thermoelectric potential difference from the crucible thermocouple and the nozzle thermocouple in real time and converts the thermoelectric potential difference into temperature information, so that the heating process of the induction heater and the heating sleeve is controlled.
Furthermore, the flow control assembly comprises a flow passage inlet protection plate and a flow passage outlet protection plate, and a labyrinth flow control plate is arranged between the flow passage inlet protection plate and the flow passage outlet protection plate. The runner inlet protection plate, the runner outlet protection plate and the labyrinth flow control plate are arranged in a laminated mode, and a runner surrounded by the runner inlet protection plate, the runner outlet protection plate and the labyrinth flow control plate is a labyrinth runner. The labyrinth runner has a periodically bent runner structure, so that the internal friction energy consumption of viscous fluid (aluminum alloy melt) can be obviously increased, and further smaller jet flow can be obtained under the same driving pressure, or the driving pressure can be obviously increased under the same jet flow. Meanwhile, the labyrinth flow passage has the effect of maintaining the flow stability. In the melt jet process, small holes at the tail end of the spray head are easy to block, when the flow is reduced due to the blocking of impurities, the flow velocity of the melt in the labyrinth runner is reduced, and the lost flow field kinetic energy is converted into static pressure energy, so that the melt in the small holes at the tail end of the spray head is forced to flow in an accelerated manner. The accelerated melt is favorable for taking away the blockage adhered to the hole wall, thereby being favorable for recovering the jet flow to a normal value.
Furthermore, an inlet sedimentation tank is arranged on the flow channel inlet protection sheet, and the bottom surface of the inlet sedimentation tank is obviously lower than the upper edge of the flow channel inlet. The inlet sedimentation tank is used for accommodating indissolvable particulate impurities with the density larger than that of the aluminum alloy melt and preventing excessive particulate impurities from entering a labyrinth flow channel through a flow channel inlet.
Furthermore, the reinforced particle powder feeding device comprises a powder feeder, the powder feeder is connected with a powder feeding nozzle through a powder feeding pipe, and the powder feeding nozzle is fixed on a ceramic protection nozzle of the arc welding torch through a powder feeding nozzle clamp. The reinforced particle powder feeding device is mainly used for driving reinforced particles into an electric arc melting pool in an air-borne powder mode to form a particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material deposition layer, and further completing additive manufacturing of a target part in a layer-by-layer deposition mode.
Furthermore, a three-dimensional motion platform is arranged below the molten drop generating system, and a base plate is arranged on a movable sliding table of the three-dimensional motion platform. The three-dimensional motion platform is used for realizing a set motion path to finish the formation of a target part; the substrate surface is used for target part formation and conducts excess heat away in a heat conduction and convection manner.
The invention provides a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing method which comprises a part/material/path design planning stage, a material/equipment preparation stage, a forming and process monitoring stage and a post-processing and quality detection stage. A composite material design step is added between model design and shaping path planning, and is used for determining the selection type of the matrix material and the reinforcing particles and the reinforcing particle implantation proportion in the composite material in the design planning stage. In the forming preparation step, the forming environment requirement is included, and for the drop-on-fuse composite arc additive manufacturing of the easily-oxidized material, the forming process needs to be ensured to be in an inert atmosphere environment with low water and low oxygen. Meanwhile, in the forming preparation step, the tightness detection after the raw material filling and the molten drop generating system are assembled is standardized. In the two steps of heating and droplet generation system function verification, heating parameters are standardized, and after the heating is carried out to a preset temperature, all function verification processes of the droplet generation system are standardized, including basic function verification such as pressure detection, air pressure loading, laser liquid level measurement and the like and function verification of jet flow state and jet flow, and the method is used for ensuring that a key system droplet generation system can normally run in a later forming stage. The main objects of process monitoring are specified in the forming process monitoring step: macroscopic shape and overlapping defects, the former is used for ensuring the forming precision, and the latter is used for ensuring the overlapping quality macroscopically. After the forming and post-processing steps are completed, a quality detection step is added subsequently, and the detection link comprises the dimensional precision, the density, the internal defects, the microstructure and the mechanical property, so that the delivered parts can meet the requirements on manufacturing precision and quality.
In conclusion, the invention takes the variable polarity gas protection tungsten electrode arc as a heat source to realize high-quality interlayer metallurgical bonding; an independent droplet generation system replaces a wire feeding mechanism in the traditional arc fuse additive manufacturing system, so that the adding process of the base material is hardly influenced by the arc state, and the process adaptability is obviously improved; the particle reinforced phase is synchronously implanted into an electric arc molten pool in an air-borne powder mode through an independent powder feeding system, so that the additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material is realized.
The technical solution of the present invention is further described in detail by the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an apparatus for manufacturing a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite by a droplet composite arc additive manufacturing method according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a labyrinth flow channel-based aluminum alloy melt flow control assembly according to the present invention, wherein (a) is a labyrinth flow channel flow control assembly and (b) is a labyrinth flow control plate;
FIG. 3 is an SEM image of an exemplary microstructure sample of the particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a droplet composite arc additive manufacturing process for a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite member according to the present invention;
fig. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion a in fig. 1.
Wherein: 1. water-cooling the top cover; 1-1, a top cover water-cooling cavity; 1-2. top cover radiating fins; 2. a cooling water inlet; 3. a pressure sensor; 4. a laser distance sensor; 5. a cooling water outlet; 6. a cooling system; 7. a material addition inlet; 8. an air inlet/outlet port; 9. a pneumatic drive system; 10. a high-temperature sealing ring; 11. smelting a crucible; 11-1. measuring temperature hole of crucible; 12. an aluminum alloy melt; 13. a ceramic filter disc; 14. a filter flange; 15. a flow control assembly; 15-1. protecting sheet for entrance of flow channel; 15-1-1. a flow channel inlet; 15-1-2, entering a sedimentation tank; 15-2, a labyrinth flow control sheet; 15-2-1. flow control sheet inlet; 15-2-2. a labyrinth flow passage; 15-2-3, outlet of flow control sheet; 15-3, protecting a runner outlet plate; 15-3-1, a flow passage outlet; 16. a transfer flange; 17. a spray head; 17-1. a nozzle temperature measuring hole; 17-2. a jet nozzle; 17-3, the end face of the spray head; 18. heating a jacket; 19. a crucible thermocouple; 20. a shower head thermocouple; 21. a temperature controller; 22. an induction heating coil; 23. an induction heating power supply; 24. an arc welding torch; 25. a welding power supply; 26. a powder feeding pipe; 27. a powder feeder; 28. a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite member; 29. a substrate; 30. a three-dimensional motion platform; 31. aluminum melt jet flow; 32. carrying out molten dripping; 33. a flow of powder; 34. an electric arc molten pool; 35. an electric arc; 36. a tungsten electrode; 37. a tungsten electrode protection nozzle; 38. a powder feeding nozzle; 39. a powder feeding nozzle clamp; 40. an aluminum substrate; 41. a particulate reinforcing phase.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "up", "down", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "one side", "one end", "one side", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention. In addition, in the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
It will be understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification and the appended claims, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
It is also to be understood that the terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used in the specification of the present invention and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
It should be further understood that the term "and/or" as used in this specification and the appended claims refers to and includes any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.
Various structural schematics according to the disclosed embodiments of the invention are shown in the drawings. The figures are not drawn to scale, wherein certain details are exaggerated and possibly omitted for clarity of presentation. The shapes of various regions, layers and their relative sizes and positional relationships shown in the drawings are merely exemplary, and deviations may occur in practice due to manufacturing tolerances or technical limitations, and a person skilled in the art may additionally design regions/layers having different shapes, sizes, relative positions, according to actual needs.
Referring to fig. 1, the present invention provides a droplet composite arc additive manufacturing apparatus for a particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material, including a droplet generation system, an arc heat source, a reinforced particle powder feeding apparatus, and a three-dimensional moving platform. The molten drop generating system is respectively matched with an electric arc heat source and a reinforced particle powder feeding device to form a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material component 28 on the three-dimensional motion platform.
The molten drop generating system comprises a water-cooling top cover assembly, an air pressure driving system 9, a crucible smelting unit, a flow control assembly 15 and a spray head 17; the water-cooling top cover assembly is arranged above a smelting crucible 11 in the crucible smelting unit, the air pressure driving system 9 is connected with the crucible smelting unit through the water-cooling top cover assembly, the flow control assembly 15 is arranged at the lower part of the crucible smelting unit, and the spray head 17 is positioned at the bottom of the crucible smelting unit.
The water-cooling top cover component comprises a water-cooling top cover 1, a cooling water inlet 2, a cooling water outlet 5, a pressure sensor 3, a laser distance sensor 4, a material adding inlet 7 and an air inlet/outlet 8 are respectively arranged on the water-cooling top cover 1, a top cover water-cooling cavity 1-1 is arranged inside the water-cooling top cover 1, and a top cover radiating fin 1-2 is arranged between the lower side of the water-cooling top cover 1 and a smelting crucible 11.
Wherein, a cooling system 6 is arranged between the cooling water inlet 2 and the cooling water outlet 5, the cooling water enters the top cover water-cooling cavity 1-1 through the cooling water inlet 2 and returns to the cooling system 6 from the cooling water outlet 5 to flow through the top cover water-cooling cavity 1-1 in a circulating manner, thereby ensuring that the pressure sensor 3 and the laser distance sensor 4 work in a proper temperature range.
The air pressure driving system 9 is respectively connected with the pressure sensor 3 and the laser distance sensor 4, the air pressure driving system 9 respectively receives real-time air pressure signals in the crucible measured by the pressure sensor 3 and liquid level signals of the aluminum alloy melt 12 in the melting crucible 11 measured by the laser distance sensor 4, and applies proper gas pressure to the aluminum alloy melt 12 in the melting crucible 11 through the air inlet/outlet 8, so that the flow of the molten drop generating system (namely the flow of the aluminum melt jet flow 31) is ensured to meet the requirement of additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced aluminum-based composite material.
The smelting crucible 11 is arranged below the water-cooling top cover 1, the water-cooling top cover 1 is in threaded connection with the smelting crucible 11, the top cover radiating fins 1-2 are designed at the threaded end of the bottom of the water-cooling top cover 1, and the top cover radiating fins 1-2 can reduce the heat transferred from the bottom smelting crucible 11 to the water-cooling top cover 1.
Wherein, be provided with high temperature sealing washer 10 between water-cooling top cap 1 and the melting crucible 11, high temperature sealing washer 10 has thermal expansion characteristic, can compensate the sealed clearance that the cooperation screw thread between water-cooling top cap 1 and the melting crucible 11 brought because of the thermal expansion coefficient difference in the heating process.
A filtering flange 14 is arranged at the bottom of the smelting crucible 11, and a ceramic filter 13 is arranged between the smelting crucible 11 and the filtering flange 14; wherein, the ceramic filter 13 is made of foamed ceramic or honeycomb ceramic, or other materials with porous structure and high temperature resistance and metal melt corrosion resistance.
The bottom of the filtering flange 14 is provided with an adapter flange 16, and the flow control assembly 15 is arranged between the filtering flange 14 and the adapter flange 16; the adapter flange 16, the flow control assembly 15, the filter flange 14 and the melting crucible 11 are arranged in a laminated manner, and the contact surfaces adopt plane sealing and are locked through screws or studs.
The fastening screw or the stud is made of metal or ceramic materials with low thermal expansion coefficients, so that the screw or the stud can be effectively pre-tightened at high temperature, and reliable plane sealing can be realized.
Referring to fig. 2, the flow control assembly 15 includes a flow channel inlet protective sheet 15-1, a labyrinth flow control sheet 15-2, and a flow channel outlet protective sheet 15-3, and the labyrinth flow control sheet 15-2 is disposed between the flow channel inlet protective sheet 15-1 and the flow channel outlet protective sheet 15-3.
Referring to fig. 2(a), the protective sheet 15-1 for a flow channel inlet is designed with a flow channel inlet 15-1-1 and an inlet settling tank 15-1-2, the bottom surface of the inlet settling tank 15-1-2 is lower than the upper edge of the flow channel inlet 15-1-1, and the inlet settling tank 15-1-2 is used for storing insoluble impurities with density higher than that of the aluminum alloy melt 12, so as to effectively reduce the risk of blocking the flow control assembly 15 by the insoluble impurities.
Referring to FIG. 2(b), a flow control plate inlet 15-2-1, a labyrinth flow passage 15-2-2 and a flow control plate outlet 15-2-3 are designed on the labyrinth flow control plate 15-2, and the flow control plate inlet 15-2-1 is connected with the flow control plate outlet 15-2-3 through the labyrinth flow passage 15-2-2; the labyrinth flow passage 15-2-2 has a labyrinth type bent periodic structure, and any periodic flow passage structure with obvious fluid energy consumption effect belongs to the labyrinth flow passage provided by the invention.
The flow passage outlet protection sheet 15-3 is provided with a flow passage outlet 15-3-1.
The bottom of the adapter flange 16 is connected with a nozzle 17, the nozzle 17 is provided with a nozzle temperature measuring hole 17-1, a jet nozzle 17-2 and a nozzle end face 17-3, and the jet nozzle 17-2 and the nozzle end face 17-3 are made of graphite, aluminum oxide or aluminum nitride and other materials, so that the nozzle end face 17-3 of the jet nozzle 17-2 is not soaked by the aluminum alloy melt 12 and is not obviously corroded.
An induction heating coil 22 is arranged on the peripheries of the melting crucible 11, the aluminum alloy melt 12, the ceramic filter 13, the filter flange 14, the flow control assembly 15 and the adapter flange 16, and the induction heating coil 22 is electrically connected with an induction heating power supply 23.
The heating jacket 18 is arranged outside the spray head 17 to heat the spray head 17, and the heating jacket 18 adopts resistance heating or induction heating.
A crucible temperature measuring hole 11-1 is arranged on the smelting crucible 11, a crucible thermocouple 19 is arranged in the crucible temperature measuring hole 11-1, a nozzle temperature measuring hole 17-1 is arranged on the nozzle 17, a nozzle thermocouple 20 is arranged in the nozzle temperature measuring hole 17-1, the crucible thermocouple 19 and the nozzle thermocouple 20 are respectively and electrically connected with a temperature controller 21, and the temperature controller 21 is respectively and electrically connected with an induction heating power supply 23 and a heating sleeve 18; the temperature controller 21 collects temperature signals from the crucible thermocouple 19 and the showerhead thermocouple 20, and regulates and controls the heating process of the induction heating power supply 23 and the heating jacket 18.
The crucible thermocouple 19 and the nozzle thermocouple 20 are thermocouples or other devices with temperature measuring function.
The arc heat source comprises an arc welding torch 24 and a welding power supply 25, the arc welding torch 24 is provided with a tungsten electrode 36, the tungsten electrode 36 is electrically connected with the welding power supply 25, when the welding power supply 25 works, an arc 35 is generated at the tail end of the tungsten electrode 36, the arc 35 acts on the substrate 29 or a formed deposition layer to generate an arc molten pool 34, and a tungsten electrode protection nozzle 37 is arranged outside the tungsten electrode 36.
The reinforcing particle powder feeding device includes a powder feeding nozzle 38, a powder feeding nozzle holder 39, a powder feeding pipe 26, and a powder feeder 27. The powder feeder 27 is connected to one end of the powder feeding tube 26, the other end of the powder feeding tube 26 is connected to the powder feeding nozzle 38, the powder feeding nozzle 38 is fixed to the powder feeding nozzle holder 39, the tungsten electrode protective nozzle 37 is further fixed to the powder feeding nozzle holder 39, and the powder feeder 27 feeds out a mixture of gas and reinforcing particles as a powder flow 33 through the powder feeding tube 26 and the powder feeding nozzle 38 in the form of airborne powder.
Referring to fig. 5, the jet nozzle 17-2 of the nozzle 17 extends to the nozzle end surface 17-3 to meet the requirement of continuous forming; an aluminum melt jet 31 generated by a droplet generation system flows out through the jet nozzle 17-2, is dispersed into droplets 32, and enters an arc molten pool 34 formed by an arc 35 generated by a tungsten electrode 36 together with a powder flow 33 sprayed by a powder feeding nozzle 38.
Wherein the discrete process of the droplet 32 is naturally occurring and can also be controlled by introducing a disturbance of a certain frequency.
A substrate 29 is arranged below the spray head 17, and the substrate 29 is arranged on a movable sliding table of a three-dimensional moving platform 30, moves along with the sliding table and moves according to a planned path under the control of a computer.
The substrate 29 is a part of the target member or is not included in the target member.
In the process of molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing, molten drops 32 and powder flow 33 are synchronously fed into an arc molten pool 34, with the relative movement of an arc 35 and a substrate 29, particle phases contained in the powder flow are dispersed in an aluminum matrix along with the movement and solidification of the arc molten pool 34 to form a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material deposition layer, and a target particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material component 28 is formed by way of layer-by-layer deposition under the control of a computer until a specified manufacturing task is completed.
The molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing system may be operated in an inert atmosphere environment to improve the stability of the manufacturing process, improve the manufacturing quality and mechanical properties of the component 28.
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. The components of the embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Please refer to fig. 3, which is an SEM image of a microstructure sample of the particulate-reinforced aluminum matrix composite, wherein the black background is aluminum matrix 40 and the gray-white spherical phase is particulate-reinforced phase 41.
The aluminum substrate 40 is pure aluminum or other aluminum alloy having weldability, including but not limited to a356, 2219, 4043, 4047, 5356, 6061, and the like.
The particulate reinforcing phase 41 is a metal particle, a ceramic particle, or a metal-ceramic composite particle, including but not limited to a pure metal particle, an alloy particle, a carbide ceramic particle, a nitride ceramic particle, and the like.
Referring to fig. 4, the method for manufacturing the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite by the molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing method of the present invention includes the following steps:
s1 model design
And designing a three-dimensional model of the target part by adopting CAD software according to the shape and the application condition of the target part.
S2 composite material design
Designing a composite material according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the step S1 and combining the functional requirements of the target part; design content includes, but is not limited to, matrix material selection, reinforcing particle selection, and reinforcing particle implantation ratio setting.
S3 shaping path planning
And determining a forming path file (the forming path file comprises coordinate information of each layer, interpolation motion mode information between coordinate points and the coordinate points, motion speed information, layer height information, layer number information, deposition rate information and current value information of an arc heat source) according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the S1, the composite material determined in the S2, the deposition rate, the layer height, the moving speed, the arc current and other process parameters. The deposition rate is 100-300 mm 3 The layer height is 1-4 mm, the moving speed is 3-15 mm/s, and the arc current is 100-500A.
S4, preparation of raw material
According to the three-dimensional model obtained in S1, the composite material determined in S2, the planned forming path in S3 and the number of target parts, the amounts of the aluminum alloy and the particulate reinforcing phase required for forming are calculated, and the required raw materials are prepared. And then removing dirt and thicker oxide film on the surface of the raw material, cleaning the raw material with absolute ethyl alcohol, and finally removing residual moisture on the surface of the raw material by heating and drying or (and) vacuumizing.
S5, preparation for molding
For easily oxidizable aluminum alloy materials, it is ensured that the forming environment is an argon (or other inert atmosphere) environment and that the water and oxygen content of the atmosphere does not exceed 100 ppm. After the preparation of raw materials and the preparation of a forming environment are finished, the functions of a cooling system, an electric arc heat source, a three-dimensional motion unit and an air pressure driving system in the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material droplet composite electric arc additive manufacturing device are checked, and the fact that all subsystems can work normally is ensured. Thereafter, the aluminum alloy material prepared in S4 was charged (in whole or in part) into a melting crucible and the droplet generation system was assembled. After the assembly of the molten drop generating system is completed, the tightness of the molten drop generating system needs to be detected, and normal loading of air pressure is ensured;
s6, heating
After the preparation for forming is completed, starting a cooling system, setting heating parameters of a temperature controller, wherein the heating parameters comprise final heating temperature (650-750 ℃) and heating rate (10-100 ℃/min), and then starting an induction heating power supply 23 and a nozzle heating sleeve 18;
s7 functional verification of droplet generation system
After the molten drop generating system is heated to a preset temperature, whether each function of the molten drop generating system is normal or not needs to be verified firstly, wherein the function comprises a pressure detection function, an air pressure loading function, a laser liquid level measurement function and the like. Then, the jet state and the jet flow rate are verified, and if the jet state is unstable or the flow rate error exceeds 10% (or the flow rate fluctuation is more than 5%) in a predetermined pressure range, the steps S5 to S7 are repeated.
S8, shaping
The data file for part forming (the forming path file obtained by S3) is imported to the process control computer, the welding power supply 25 and the powder feeder 27 are turned on, and thereafter the execution of the target member printing program is started.
S9, monitoring forming process
During the forming process of the target part, real-time morphology monitoring is carried out to determine whether the formed part meets the design requirements. The process parameters can be adjusted in real time to meet the forming requirements (including forming size precision and lapping quality), and if the forming precision is obviously deviated from the size requirement of the part or serious lapping defects occur, the forming is suspended, the current part is scrapped, and relevant data in a forming path file is checked and corrected. After the relevant parameters are corrected, the steps S8 and S9 are repeated until the part manufacturing is completed.
S10, post-processing
After the printing of the target part is finished and the target part is cooled to the temperature capable of being manually operated, taking out the substrate and the printed part, and removing parts which do not belong to the part, wherein the parts comprise the substrate, auxiliary support and surface adhesion powder, or part machining allowance is removed in a machining mode, and if the parts are required, part heat treatment or surface treatment can be added.
S11, quality detection
The quality detection links include but are not limited to means such as size measurement, density measurement, CT scanning and the like; the method can be used for carrying out destructive tests on the simulation sample according to requirements, wherein the destructive tests comprise metallographic representation, mechanical property tests, friction and wear property tests and the like. And if the part meets the use requirement, delivering or continuing to manufacture the rest part. And if the part cannot pass the quality detection, the part is scrapped.
The method of the invention provides a general flow suitable for the molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing of the aluminum alloy/particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite. The method mainly comprises a part/material/path design planning stage, a material/equipment preparation stage, a forming and process monitoring stage, and a post-processing and quality detection stage. Step S2 of designing the composite material is added between the step S1 of designing the model and the step S3 of planning the shaping path, so as to determine the selection of the matrix material and the reinforcing particles and the implantation ratio of the reinforcing particles in the composite material in the design planning stage. In step S5, the forming preparation includes the requirements of forming environment, and for the drop recombination arc additive manufacturing of the easily-oxidizable material, it is necessary to ensure that the forming process is in the inert atmosphere environment of low water and low oxygen. Meanwhile, in the step S5 of preparing for forming, the tightness detection after the raw material filling and the molten drop generating system are assembled is standardized, and the air pressure loading function is used for detecting the tightness of the molten drop generating system. In the two steps of heating in the step S6 and functional verification of the molten drop generating system in the step S7, the functional verification processes of heating parameters and heating to a preset temperature for the molten drop generating system are specified, the basic functional verification including pressure detection, air pressure loading, laser liquid level measurement and the like and the functional verification of jet flow state and jet flow are included, and the functional verification is used for ensuring that the molten drop generating system of the key system can normally run in the subsequent forming (S8) stage. The main objects of the process monitoring are specified in the step S9 forming the process monitoring: macroscopic shape and overlapping defects, the former is used for ensuring the forming precision, and the latter is used for ensuring the overlapping quality macroscopically. After the forming and post-processing steps specified in the steps S8-S10 are completed, the step S11 of quality detection is added subsequently, and the detection link comprises the dimensional precision, the density, the internal defects, the microstructure and the mechanical property, and is used for ensuring that delivered parts meet the requirements of manufacturing precision and quality.
In conclusion, the device and the method for manufacturing the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material by the molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing use the variable polarity gas protection tungsten arc as a heat source to realize high-quality interlayer metallurgical bonding; an independent droplet generation system replaces a wire feeding mechanism in the traditional arc fuse additive manufacturing system, so that the adding process of the base material is hardly influenced by the arc state, and the process adaptability is obviously improved; the particle reinforced phase is synchronously implanted into an electric arc molten pool in an air-borne powder mode through an independent powder feeding system, so that the additive manufacturing of the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material is realized.
The above-mentioned contents are only for illustrating the technical idea of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereby, and any modification made on the basis of the technical idea of the present invention falls within the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

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1. A particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device is characterized by comprising a molten drop generating system, wherein the molten drop generating system is used for generating an aluminum melt jet flow (31) and comprises a smelting crucible (11), a water-cooling top cover component is arranged on the upper portion of the smelting crucible (11), the lower portion of the smelting crucible (11) is connected with a spray head (17) through a flow control component (15), a periodic labyrinth type flow passage structure is arranged inside the flow control component (15), an electric arc heat source and a reinforced particle powder feeding device are arranged on one side of the spray head (17), the electric arc heat source is used for generating an electric arc molten pool (34), the reinforced particle powder feeding device is used for mixing gas and reinforced particles to form a powder flow (33), the aluminum melt jet flow (31) is dispersed into the molten pool (32) and then enters the electric arc molten pool (34) together with the powder flow (33), and a particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material deposition layer is formed along with the movement and solidification of the electric arc molten pool, the target particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite member (28) is formed by the lane-by-lane/layer-by-layer deposition.
2. The particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 1, wherein the water-cooled top cover assembly comprises a water-cooled top cover (1), a cooling water inlet (2), a cooling water outlet (5), a material adding inlet (7) and an air inlet/outlet (8) are arranged on the water-cooled top cover (1), a top cover water-cooling cavity (1-1) is arranged inside the water-cooled top cover (1), a cooling system (6) is arranged between the cooling water inlet (2) and the cooling water outlet (5), and cooling water enters the top cover water-cooling cavity (1-1) through the cooling water inlet (2) and returns to the cooling system (6) from the cooling water outlet (5).
3. The particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite droplet composite electric arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 2, wherein a pressure sensor (3) and a laser distance sensor (4) are arranged on the water-cooled top cover (1), and the pressure sensor (3) and the laser distance sensor (4) are respectively connected with the air pressure driving system (9).
4. The composite arc additive manufacturing device for the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drops is characterized in that a top cover cooling fin (1-2) is arranged between the lower side of the water-cooled top cover (1) and the melting crucible (11), a high-temperature sealing ring (10) is arranged between the top cover cooling fin (1-2) and the melting crucible (11), an induction heating coil (22) is arranged outside the melting crucible (11), and the induction heating coil (22) is electrically connected with an induction heating power supply (23).
5. The particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 1, wherein a filtering flange (14) is arranged at the bottom of the melting crucible (11), and a ceramic filter sheet (13) is arranged between the melting crucible (11) and the filtering flange (14); an adapter flange (16) is arranged at the bottom of the filtering flange (14), the flow control assembly (15) is arranged between the filtering flange (14) and the adapter flange (16), the flow control assembly (15), the filtering flange (14) and the smelting crucible (11) are arranged in a laminated mode; the bottom of the adapter flange (16) is connected with the spray head (17), a heating sleeve (18) is arranged outside the spray head (17), and the heating sleeve (18) is electrically connected with a temperature controller (21).
6. The particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material molten drop composite electric arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 1, wherein a crucible temperature measuring hole (11-1) is arranged on the melting crucible (11), a crucible thermocouple (19) is arranged in the crucible temperature measuring hole (11-1), a nozzle temperature measuring hole (17-1) is arranged on the nozzle (17), a nozzle thermocouple (20) is arranged in the nozzle temperature measuring hole (17-1), and the crucible thermocouple (19) and the nozzle thermocouple (20) are respectively electrically connected with a temperature controller (21).
7. The particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material droplet composite arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 1, wherein the flow control assembly (15) comprises a flow channel inlet protective sheet (15-1) and a flow channel outlet protective sheet (15-3), and a labyrinth type flow control sheet (15-2) is arranged between the flow channel inlet protective sheet (15-1) and the flow channel outlet protective sheet (15-3); the flow channel inlet protective sheet (15-1) is provided with a flow channel inlet (15-1-1) and an inlet sedimentation tank (15-1-2), and the bottom surface of the inlet sedimentation tank (15-1-2) is lower than the upper edge of the flow channel inlet (15-1-1); a flow control sheet inlet (15-2-1) is arranged on the labyrinth flow control sheet (15-2), the flow control sheet inlet (15-2-1) is connected with a flow control sheet outlet (15-2-3) through a labyrinth flow passage (15-2-2), and the labyrinth flow passage (15-2-2) has a labyrinth bent periodic structure; the runner outlet protective sheet (15-3) is provided with a runner outlet (15-3-1).
8. The particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite droplet composite arc additive manufacturing device according to claim 1, wherein the reinforced particle powder feeding device comprises a powder feeder (27), the powder feeder (27) is connected with a powder feeding nozzle (38) through a powder feeding pipe (26), and the powder feeding nozzle (38) is fixed on the arc welding torch (24) through a powder feeding nozzle clamp (39).
9. The device for manufacturing the particle reinforced aluminum matrix composite material by the molten drop composite arc additive manufacturing according to the claim 1, wherein a base plate (29) is arranged below the spray head (17), and the base plate (29) is connected with a three-dimensional moving platform (30).
10. A particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material droplet composite electric arc additive manufacturing method is characterized in that the particle-reinforced aluminum-based composite material droplet composite electric arc additive manufacturing device of claim 1 is used, and comprises the following steps:
s1, designing a three-dimensional model of the target part according to the shape and the application condition of the target part;
s2, designing the composite material according to the three-dimensional model of the part obtained in the step S1 and in combination with the functional requirements of the target part, wherein the design comprises the matrix material model selection, the reinforced particle model selection and the reinforced particle implantation proportion setting of the composite material;
s3, determining a forming path file according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the step S1, the composite material determined in the step S2, the deposition rate, the layer height, the moving speed and the arc current process parameters, wherein the deposition rate in the forming path file is 100-300 mm 3 The layer height is 1-4 mm, the moving speed is 3-15 mm/s, and the arc current is 100-500A;
s4, calculating the amount of aluminum alloy and particle reinforced phase required by forming according to the three-dimensional model obtained in the step S1, the composite material determined in the step S2, the forming path planned in the step S3 and the number of target parts;
s5, forming the easily oxidized aluminum alloy material in an inert atmosphere, wherein the water content and the oxygen content in the atmosphere are not more than 100ppm, loading the aluminum alloy material prepared in the step S4 into a melting crucible, and assembling a molten drop generating system;
s6, starting a cooling system, setting the final heating temperature to be 650-750 ℃, and the heating rate to be 10-100 ℃/min, and heating the molten drop generating system in the step S5;
s7, after the molten drop generating system in the step S6 is heated to a preset temperature, verifying whether the pressure detection function, the air pressure loading function and the laser liquid level measurement function of the molten drop generating system operate normally, then verifying the jet state and the jet flow rate, and repeating the steps S5-S7 if the jet state is unstable or the flow rate error exceeds 10% or the flow rate fluctuation is more than 5% in a preset pressure range;
s8, printing the target member according to the forming path file obtained in the step S3;
s9, carrying out real-time topography monitoring in the printing process of the step S8, if the forming precision deviates from the size requirement of the part or a lap joint defect occurs, suspending forming, correcting related data in the forming path file obtained in the step S3, and repeating the step S9 until the part is manufactured;
and S10, after the printing of the target part is finished in the step S9, removing parts which do not belong to the part to obtain the target part.
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