US20180002788A1 - Process for obtaining a low silicon aluminium alloy part - Google Patents

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US20180002788A1
US20180002788A1 US15/544,213 US201615544213A US2018002788A1 US 20180002788 A1 US20180002788 A1 US 20180002788A1 US 201615544213 A US201615544213 A US 201615544213A US 2018002788 A1 US2018002788 A1 US 2018002788A1
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    • B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
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    • C22F1/04—Changing the physical structure of non-ferrous metals or alloys by heat treatment or by hot or cold working of aluminium or alloys based thereon
    • C22F1/05—Changing the physical structure of non-ferrous metals or alloys by heat treatment or by hot or cold working of aluminium or alloys based thereon of alloys of the Al-Si-Mg type, i.e. containing silicon and magnesium in approximately equal proportions

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  • the invention relates to the technical field of foundry work or casting, for manufacturing aluminum parts, in particular in the automobile and aviation sectors, and more generally in all types of industry.
  • alloys exist that are said to be “low-silicon” alloys. Such alloys have high mechanical characteristics after T6 heat treatment (Rp 0.2 of 300 MPa; A % of 8%). They are grouped together in the 6000 (Al—Mg—Si) series in the classification of aluminum alloys. The most well known are the 6082, 6061, and 6151. Numerous compositions also exist with contents similar to the standardized alloys, among which mention can be made, for example, of Document EP 0 987 344.
  • the above-mentioned alloys have been developed for obtaining semi-finished products (billets or ingots for forging or rolling) designed to be transformed during hot or cold operations with high deformation rates (>50%).
  • the geometrical shapes of such semi-finished products are simple (bar, rod, or ingot), thereby making it possible to solidify such alloys with defects being minimized, by using methods having high solidification speeds.
  • Such geometrical shapes and such methods result, using techniques that are currently mastered, to semi-finished products that are exempt from defects, such defects being, for example: shrink holes, cracks, macro-segregations, and macro-precipitations (formation of precipitates that are too coarse, >100 ⁇ m).
  • the problem posed that the invention proposes to solve is to make it possible to obtain parts that satisfy high safety and quality standards, and that can be of complex shapes.
  • the invention provides a method of manufacturing a part made of low-silicon aluminum alloy of the 6000 type.
  • the invention provides a method of obtaining a part made of low-silicon aluminum alloy, containing silicon at a content lying in the range 0.5% to 3%, magnesium at a content lying in the range 0.65% to 1%, copper at a content lying in the range 0.20% to 0.40%, manganese at a content lying in the range 0.15% to 0.25%, titanium at a content lying in the range 0.10% to 0.20%, and strontium at a content lying in the range 0 ppm to 120 ppm, said method including:
  • the present invention also provides:
  • the preform after the preform has been cooled, it is reheated by being placed in a tunnel furnace.
  • the casting operation followed by the forging of the preform in one step do not have the same parameters as regards temperatures, solidification speed, rate of deformation, and forge temperature as the methods in the state of the prior art.
  • the silicon content lies in the range 0.5% to 3%.
  • a silicon content less than 1% results in the highest yield strengths and elongations.
  • it is the content for which the alloy is the most sensitive to cracking and has the lowest castability or fluidity. It is therefore necessary to be able to adapt the silicon content as a function of the geometrical shape of the part. Complex geometrical shapes require a higher content so as to reduce this sensitivity to cracking.
  • the maximum content of 3% corresponds to the content beyond which the elongation and the yield strength become too low for it to remain advantageous to produce parts using an alloy of this type.
  • the magnesium content lies in the range 0.65% to 1%. This content makes it possible to optimize the density of Mg 2 Si precipitates in the aluminum matrix. It compensates for the reduction in the silicon content while also minimizing the macroscopic Mg 2 Si precipitates that are damaging and must be dissolved or transformed during the heat treatment. If there are too many precipitates or if they are too big, the heat treatment has only a small effect on their dissolution, since the critical dissolution size is exceeded.
  • the copper content lies in the range 0.20% to 0.40%. This content makes it possible for Al 2 Cu precipitates to be formed in the matrix and for there to be a total absence of macroscopic Al 2 Cu precipitates. The absence of any such macroscopic precipitates makes it possible to maintain high forging temperatures and thereby to minimize the forging forces (forging being performed in a single step).
  • the main precipitates formed in the presence of copper are Al 2 Cu and AlMgSiCu that melt respectively at 490° C. and at 525° C., and their presence would prevent forging at higher temperatures without running the risk of the alloy being burnt, which would make the parts unusable. Such degradation can be likened to the alloy being destroyed.
  • a higher copper content also increases the sensitivity of the alloy to cracking, because there remains a eutectic to be solidified at low temperatures (490° C. or 525° C.) for which the mechanical stresses (related to shrinkage on solidification) exerted on the part are large.
  • the manganese content lies in the range 0.15% to 0.25%. This content avoids AlFeSi precipitates forming in ⁇ form (highly damaging platelet form) and makes it possible rather for AlFeMnSi precipitates to form in a form (less damaging Chinese-script form). This makes it possible to maximize the elongation on the finished part resulting from the Cobapress method. This effect is most often used with larger quantities of manganese and of iron, since these two elements lead to high hardening of the alloy but also to larger precipitates during solidification. Such large precipitates are detrimental to proper elongation.
  • the alloy of the invention is, as indicated, designed for the Cobapress method, in which forging is performed in a single step, and does not involve the large deformations usually encountered in forging, rolling or extrusion. Such large deformations make it possible to fragment the large precipitates and to make them must less damaging, while also maintaining their hardening effect.
  • the impact of the iron-based precipitates on the mechanical characteristics should be minimized as of the casting stage. This is because their morphology is then no longer modified, since single-step forging does not deform the part sufficiently to change their morphology.
  • this manganese content is adapted to the cooling speeds obtained when casting in a permanent mold, and, with regard to such speeds, it facilitates the formation of AlFeMnSi precipitates in a form.
  • the titanium content lies in the range 0.10% to 0.20%. That content is necessary for effective germination of the grains and for a fine grain size that has a large effect on the mechanical characteristics of these alloys.
  • the strontium content lies in the range 0 ppm to 120 ppm. This content is necessary for having a fibrous solidification of the small quantities of eutectic that are formed. This takes place mainly for silicon contents greater than 1 5%.
  • composition of this alloy is adapted to lead to a solidification that makes it possible to maximize the mechanical characteristics in spite of the low levels of deformation encountered during the Cobapress method.
  • solidification defects persist, such as inter-grain shrink-hole solidification defects at the grain joins, with a ramified and diffuse morphology that weakens the casting, i.e. the part resulting from being cast.
  • the Cobapress forging operation makes it possible to re-close and re-bond such defects with the deformation rate being controlled at the design stage.
  • the temperature/deformation pair makes it possible to solve the defects.
  • the table below gives the mechanical characteristics on a casting and on parts, using the Cobapress method, after T6 heat treatment of the low-silicon alloy. It is possible to note the improvement in the ultimate tensile strength Rm and the ultimate elongation:
  • this composition makes it possible to reduce the complexity of the usual heat treatment for alloys of the Al—Mg—Si—Cu type.
  • the silicon content, the solidification speeds and the grain refinement lead to macroscopic Mg 2 Si precipitates that are of size and of morphology that facilitate dissolution during the heat treatment.
  • FIG. 1 shows a casting microstructure, without any manganese, and “needle” precipitates of the ⁇ type
  • FIG. 2 shows the monostructure with manganese, and “Chinese script” precipitates of the a type.
  • FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 show the elimination of the Al 2 Cu copper precipitates.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 the copper content is greater than 0 40%, which leads to the presence of Al 2 Cu precipitates.
  • FIG. 4 shows an example in which it is possible to observe the AlFeMnSi and Mg 2 Si precipitations surrounded by Al 2 Cu precipitates.
  • FIG. 5 shows a copper content lying in the range 0.20% to 0.40%, in accordance with the invention, showing absence of Al 2 Cu precipitates.

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