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The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites
Aluminum matrix composites have been widely used in aerospace and automotive fields due to their excellent physical properties. Cryogenic treatment was successfully adopted to improve the performance of aluminum alloy components, while its effect and mechanism on the aluminum matrix composite remain...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9821939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16010396 |
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author | Zhang, Mingli Pan, Ran Liu, Baosheng Gu, Kaixuan Weng, Zeju Cui, Chen Wang, Junjie |
author_facet | Zhang, Mingli Pan, Ran Liu, Baosheng Gu, Kaixuan Weng, Zeju Cui, Chen Wang, Junjie |
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description | Aluminum matrix composites have been widely used in aerospace and automotive fields due to their excellent physical properties. Cryogenic treatment was successfully adopted to improve the performance of aluminum alloy components, while its effect and mechanism on the aluminum matrix composite remained unclear. In this work, the effects of cryogenic treatment on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of 15%SiCp/2009 aluminum matrix composites were systematically investigated by means of Thermoelectric Power (TEP), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The results showed that TEP measurement can be an effective method for evaluating the precipitation characteristics of 15%SiCp/2009 aluminum matrix composites during aging. The addition of cryogenic treatment after solution and before aging treatment promoted the precipitation from the beginning stage of aging. Furthermore, the aging time for the maximum precipitation of the θ″ phase was about 4 h advanced, as the conduction of cryogenic treatment accelerates the aging kinetics. This was attributed to the great difference in the linear expansion coefficient between the aluminum alloy matrix and SiC-reinforced particles, which could induce high internal stress in their boundaries for precipitation. Moreover, the lattice contraction of the aluminum alloy matrix during cryogenic treatment led to the increase in dislocation density and micro defects near the boundaries, thus providing more nucleation sites for precipitation during the aging treatment. After undergoing artificial aging treatment for 20 h, the increase in dispersive, distributed precipitates after cryogenic treatment improved the hardness and yield strength by 4% and 16 MPa, respectively. |
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spelling | pubmed-98219392023-01-07 The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites Zhang, Mingli Pan, Ran Liu, Baosheng Gu, Kaixuan Weng, Zeju Cui, Chen Wang, Junjie Materials (Basel) Article Aluminum matrix composites have been widely used in aerospace and automotive fields due to their excellent physical properties. Cryogenic treatment was successfully adopted to improve the performance of aluminum alloy components, while its effect and mechanism on the aluminum matrix composite remained unclear. In this work, the effects of cryogenic treatment on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of 15%SiCp/2009 aluminum matrix composites were systematically investigated by means of Thermoelectric Power (TEP), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). The results showed that TEP measurement can be an effective method for evaluating the precipitation characteristics of 15%SiCp/2009 aluminum matrix composites during aging. The addition of cryogenic treatment after solution and before aging treatment promoted the precipitation from the beginning stage of aging. Furthermore, the aging time for the maximum precipitation of the θ″ phase was about 4 h advanced, as the conduction of cryogenic treatment accelerates the aging kinetics. This was attributed to the great difference in the linear expansion coefficient between the aluminum alloy matrix and SiC-reinforced particles, which could induce high internal stress in their boundaries for precipitation. Moreover, the lattice contraction of the aluminum alloy matrix during cryogenic treatment led to the increase in dislocation density and micro defects near the boundaries, thus providing more nucleation sites for precipitation during the aging treatment. After undergoing artificial aging treatment for 20 h, the increase in dispersive, distributed precipitates after cryogenic treatment improved the hardness and yield strength by 4% and 16 MPa, respectively. MDPI 2023-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9821939/ /pubmed/36614735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16010396 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Zhang, Mingli Pan, Ran Liu, Baosheng Gu, Kaixuan Weng, Zeju Cui, Chen Wang, Junjie The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title | The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title_full | The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title_short | The Influence of Cryogenic Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Characteristics of Aluminum Silicon Carbide Matrix Composites |
title_sort | influence of cryogenic treatment on the microstructure and mechanical characteristics of aluminum silicon carbide matrix composites |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9821939/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614735 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16010396 |
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