PREDICTION OF QUENCHINGINDUCED （预测QUENCHINGINDUCED）.pdfVIP

Proceedings of the International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials 2015 Edited by: Matthias Militzer, Gianluigi Botton, Long-Qing Chen, James Howe, Chadwick Sinclair, and Hatem Zurob PREDICTION OF QUENCHING-INDUCED RESIDUAL STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN 7XXX ALUMINUM ALLOY THICK PLATES USING GLEEBLE INTERRUPTED QUENCH TESTS 1 2 1 3 1 N. Chobaut , D. Carron , P. Schloth , S. Arsène and J.-M. Drezet 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2Univ. Bretagne-Sud, EA 4250, LIMATB; F-56100 Lorient, France 3Constellium Technology Center; 725 rue Aristide Bergès, CentrAlp, 38341 Voreppe, France Keywords: AA7xxx alloys, precipitation, residual stresses, Gleeble machine, neutron diffraction Abstract In the fabrication of heat treatable aluminum parts for the aeronautic industry, quenching is a key step to obtain the required mechanical characteristics after aging. For thick plates, thermal gradients cause non-homogeneous plastic strain resulting in residual stresses (RS) after quenching. In 7xxx alloys, precipitation phenomena may affect these RS. Quenching RS are extensively reduced by stress relief. However, RS at final temper could lead to some distortions during machining of large and complex parts. For their prediction, it is thus important to be able to model the full process and particularly the quenching. In this work a simple but realistic approach is presented to predict as-quenched RS. Instead of modeling precipitation, yield strength is characterized with a few Gleeble interrupted quench tests. The re