Copper Zirconium alloys lesjoforsab（铜锆合金lesjoforsab）.pdfVIP

Technical Report 4/20 11 Copper Zirconium alloys 20 11-06-08 Lars Bergqvist Abstract Because of the toxicity of copper alloyed with beryllium customers with aware of the environment are looking for springs with material without beryllium. For applications with high conductivity demands copper alloyed with zirconium can be a possibility, values up to 93 % IACS are reported. Ultimate tensile strength of 600 MPa is specified by the material manufacturers. The mechanical strength of a CuCr1Zr grade wire with diameter 1,5 mm was investigated and the results presented. Compression coil springs was manufactured and figures from pre-stressing behaviour and residual stresses are presented. Test was also made of different stress relief temperatures. The relaxation and fatigue strength of CuCr1Zr grade coil springs was also investigated. Content 1/ Introduction 2/ Material sample and the tests 3/ Grades 4/ Conductivity 5/ Mechanical properties 6/ Physical properties 7/ Surface quality 8/ Creep/Relaxation 9/ Fatigue strength 10/ Plating 11/ Joining 12/ Other high conductivity grades 13/ Discussion 14/ Conclusions 15/ Acknowledgements 16/ References 1/ Introduction Because of the toxicity of copper alloyed with beryllium customers with aware of the environment are looking for springs made from copper zirconium alloy without beryllium. For some applications high conductivity is required and copper alloyed with zirconium can be a possible material for the springs. Some grades of this type are available on the market both as wire and strip. In this report is presented copper zirconium alloy sample investigation results and the results from literature studies. 2/ Material sample and the tests Spring hard CuCr1Zr wire, diameter 1,50 +/- 0,02 mm and UTS 650 MPa was used for this investigations. Following parameters was tested, UTS, Rp0,2, A50, Z and surface quality. Co