多级热处理工艺对铝合金AA7049性能的影响.pdfVIP

Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 23(2013) 1570−1575 Multi-stage heat treatment of aluminum alloy AA7049 R. RANGANATHA1, V. ANIL KUMAR2, VAISHAKI S. NANDI3, R. R. BHAT3, B. K. MURALIDHARA4 1. Mechanical Engineering, Sri Jagadguru Chandrasekarananthaswamiji Institute of Technology, Chikkaballapura, India; 2. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, India; 3. Foundry Forge Division, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore, India; 4. University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India Received 27 July 2012; accepted 19 December 2012 Abstract: High strength 7xxx series aluminum alloys in the T6 temper are known to be highly susceptible to stress corrosion cracking (SCC). Retrogression and re-aging (RRA) is a heat treatment by which the resistance to SCC is enhanced without losing yield or tensile strength. The influence of multi-stage heat treatment on the properties and microstructure of AA7049 aluminum alloy was investigated. The microstructure of the alloy in various temper conditions was correlated to the electrical conductivity measurements, DSC analysis and TEM observation. The DSC analysis shows that RRA treatments lead to significant change in the microstructure and the resultant RRA precipitate microstructure is significantly different from both the T6 and T73 microstructures and is able to retain the strength of T6 temper while attaining the thermodynamic stability of the T73 temper. Key words: aluminum alloy AA7049; retrogression; re-aging; heat treatment 1 Introduction High strength aluminum alloys are used extensively in aerospace industry. Besides 2xxx series, 7xxx series Al−Zn−Mg−Cu alloys have been emerging as competitive and attractive candidate material for such applications primarily beca