EP1214995B1 - Verfahren zur Behandlung metallischer Werkstoffe - Google Patents

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EP1214995B1
EP1214995B1 EP01127929A EP01127929A EP1214995B1 EP 1214995 B1 EP1214995 B1 EP 1214995B1 EP 01127929 A EP01127929 A EP 01127929A EP 01127929 A EP01127929 A EP 01127929A EP 1214995 B1 EP1214995 B1 EP 1214995B1
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Fritz Dr. Appel
Stephan Eggert
Uwe Lorenz
Michael Dr. Oehring
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J1/00Preparing metal stock or similar ancillary operations prior, during or post forging, e.g. heating or cooling
    • B21J1/02Preliminary treatment of metal stock without particular shaping, e.g. salvaging segregated zones, forging or pressing in the rough
    • B21J1/025Preliminary treatment of metal stock without particular shaping, e.g. salvaging segregated zones, forging or pressing in the rough affecting grain orientation
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21JFORGING; HAMMERING; PRESSING METAL; RIVETING; FORGE FURNACES
    • B21J9/00Forging presses
    • B21J9/02Special design or construction
    • B21J9/06Swaging presses; Upsetting presses
    • B21J9/08Swaging presses; Upsetting presses equipped with devices for heating the work-piece
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21DMODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D7/00Modifying the physical properties of iron or steel by deformation
    • C21D7/13Modifying the physical properties of iron or steel by deformation by hot working
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C21METALLURGY OF IRON
    • C21DMODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS; GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS METALS OR ALLOYS; MAKING METAL MALLEABLE, e.g. BY DECARBURISATION OR TEMPERING
    • C21D8/00Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment
    • C21D8/02Modifying the physical properties by deformation combined with, or followed by, heat treatment during manufacturing of plates or strips
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22FCHANGING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF NON-FERROUS METALS AND NON-FERROUS ALLOYS
    • C22F1/00Changing the physical structure of non-ferrous metals or alloys by heat treatment or by hot or cold working
    • C22F1/16Changing the physical structure of non-ferrous metals or alloys by heat treatment or by hot or cold working of other metals or alloys based thereon
    • C22F1/18High-melting or refractory metals or alloys based thereon
    • C22F1/183High-melting or refractory metals or alloys based thereon of titanium or alloys based thereon

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  • the invention relates to a method for the treatment of difficult-to-form metallic materials for the consolidation of the structure of the metallic materials. Such a method is e.g. in US-A-5 039 356.
  • Previously used conventional treatment or forming techniques for metallic materials show consolidation results that do not meet the desired results regularly.
  • Special metallic materials for example the group of titanium aluminides or magnesium materials, according to the previously used conventional treatment or forming techniques, for example by forging or extrusion, still considerable chemical and structural inhomogeneity of their structure, which does not tolerate certain technical applications can be.
  • the known treatment or forming techniques lack, first of all, that with these only relatively low degrees of deformation can be achieved. This is, for example, if the metallic materials are to be used in thermally and mechanically highly stressed areas, such as turbine blades of jet engines for aircraft or connecting rods for drive assemblies of automobiles unacceptable.
  • Metallic materials such as intermetallic titanium aluminides are very brittle and thus difficult to form materials.
  • such metallic materials have been produced exclusively by melt-metallographic processes, predominantly employing vacuum arc melting, plasma melting and induction melting.
  • the melt is usually melted two to three times, occur in the castings considerable quality deficiencies, which are mainly by a coarse-grained texture with a pronounced preference of the crystals, strong increases (local variations in the composition) and the appearance of pores.
  • Such deficiencies occur not only in the primary casting, for example, of titanium aluminides, but also in many other metallic materials, so that they, as mentioned, are not suitable for direct component production from the casting material.
  • the primary casting material must therefore be structurally and chemically consolidated.
  • the high-temperature forming by forging or extrusion is used regularly, in particular, a significant refinement of the structure and a balance of local variations in the composition of the material is sought, for example, it is metallic alloys.
  • the fineness and homogeneity of the structure present after the forming process therefore depends, in addition to the forming temperature and the forming speed, above all, on the degree of deformation, ie. the extent of the plastic deformation achieved during the deformation of the material.
  • This degree of deformation is usually limited to a height reduction of 90 to 95% in conventional single-stage forging by compression. At such degrees of deformation arise at the periphery of the forging high secondary tensile stresses, which often lead to cracking. This is particularly problematic for brittle materials, such as titanium aluminides, which therefore usually can only be converted much less.
  • Higher degrees of deformation require multi-stage forging, which is very expensive and is also not applicable to all desired component shapes.
  • Blank in the above sense means an element of metallic material of the type described above, which has been treated so far, possibly by multiple melting, as it has been previously pretreated for extrusion or forging.
  • the metallic element in this sense may be a suitable sample for scientific purposes, but it may also be a semi-finished product intended for the production of end products, for example turbine blades for jet engines or connecting rods for drive units of motor vehicles.
  • blanks of metallic materials can be produced with which, as desired, a significantly improved microstructural consolidation of the metallic material can be achieved, wherein the application of the method to brittle and thus difficult to deform metallic materials results with respect to the procedurally achievable structure shown have even exceeded the expectations placed in the process considerably, ie the structural and chemical consolidation of the structure has significantly improved over the achievable microstructures by known forging and extrusion processes.
  • Another significant advantage of the method according to the invention is that the forming temperature to which the blank is heated, can be significantly lower than the temperatures that had to be achieved for the previous known forging and extrusion process.
  • the deformation is applied in the form of a twist as well as a simultaneous compression, i. a superimposition of both types of deformation takes place, wherein the shearing cracks which possibly occur during the deformation of the metallic material due to the twisting are closed again at a very early stage, so that they can not grow into macro-cracks. Due to the superimposition of twisting and compression, moreover, a more homogeneous deformation of the material is achieved, since the shearing operations associated with the two deformation processes are strongly inclined with respect to each other with a suitable geometric structure of the blank.
  • the compression is carried out by loading the blank with a constant force, but it is also preferably possible to carry out the compression by applying the blank at a constant rate of deformation.
  • the heating of the blank in the process-related treatment can take place in any desired manner, it being advantageous to control the heating of the blank such that the blank as a whole is heated or held at forming temperature when the deformation takes place.
  • the blank is deformed in total, ie twisted and compressed.
  • the heating so as to purposefully heat the selected portion of the blank whose deformation is to be effected, i. in the broadest sense stepwise deformation of the blank depending on the relative to the blank positioned heater or heat.
  • the heating of the blank is preferably carried out by means of an electric coil which is suitably positioned around the blank and optionally displaceable along the blank in order to heat certain selected areas of the blank in the sense of the preceding paragraph.
  • the method described here was carried out on a laboratory scale on a TiAl alloy of the composition (in atomic percent) Ti - 47 Al - 3.7 (Nb, Cr, Mn, Si) - 0.5 B tested.
  • the experiments were carried out in air.
  • threaded head samples were installed in a compression apparatus in which the sample holders could be rotated against each other to rotate the sample (FIG. 1).
  • the samples were heated by an induction coil to different deformation temperatures between 1000 and 1100 ° C.
  • the sample temperature was determined with a thermocouple. Due to the geometric structure of the coil, the hot sample zone was about 6 mm in length, which was considered to be the effective sample length for evaluation.
  • Fig. 2 shows a macro photograph of the reshaped sample. The texture refinement achieved by the forming process is demonstrated on the basis of light micrographs in Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 3a shows the relatively coarse cast structure in the head region of the sample, in which no deformation and thus no dynamic recrystallization has taken place.
  • Fig. 3b shows the central sample area deformed by the compression and twist.
  • d 800 ⁇ m
  • the method described here can be easily extended to technical standards, since the components required for this purpose, such as induction heaters or forming machines, belong to the standard equipment of the metallurgical industry.
  • a particular advantage of the method is that the sample holders need not be heated, so there are no special requirements for the high temperature strength of these materials.
  • the sample to be reshaped can be heated homogeneously over the entire length to the desired deformation temperature.
  • the sample may also be locally heated by induction heating. This latter method has the advantage that locally very high degrees of deformation and forming speeds can be realized under otherwise identical conditions can, which is advantageous in many materials for achieving a homogeneous recrystallization.
  • the induction coil For the total deformation of the sample must, as indicated in Fig. 1, the induction coil to be moved along the sample longitudinal axis.
  • Forming can be done at 1000 ° C at relatively low forming temperatures compared to conventional forging and extrusion processes, which greatly simplifies the transformation of corrosion sensitive materials such as titanium aluminides.
  • a particular advantage of the method is that forming operations at extremely high temperatures under protective gas can be realized in a relatively simple manner.
  • forming temperatures of more than 1350.degree. C. are often necessary, since in this way special lamellar microstructure morphologies can be set.
  • the forming conditions can be adjusted to a high degree to the deformation and recrystallization behavior, so that even relatively brittle materials, such as titanium aluminides, can be well formed.
  • the torques and forces required for the deformation can be initiated in all cases on relatively cold sample holders, so that these versions need not be made of very expensive high-temperature materials.

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