Residual Stresses in DC cast Aluminum Billet Neutron…直流铸铝中子残余应力.pdfVIP

Residual Stresses in DC cast Aluminum Billet: Neutron Diffraction Measurements and Thermomechanical Modeling a b c J.-M. Drezet , A. Evans and T. Pirling aLSMX, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland bPaul Scherrer Institut, PSI CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland cInstitut Laue Langevin, ILL F-38042 Grenoble, France Abstract. Thermally-induced residual stresses, generated during the industrial Direct Chill casting process of aluminum alloys, can cause both significant safety concerns as well as the formation of defects during down-stream processing. Although these thermally induced strains can be partially relieved by permanent deformation, cracks will be generated either during solidification (hot tears) or post-solidification cooling (cold cracks) when stresses exceed the deformation limit of the alloy. Furthermore, the thermally induced strains result in the presence of large internal stresses within the billet before further processing steps. Although numerical models have been previously developed to compute these residual stresses, most of the computations have been validated only against measured surface distortions. In the present work, the variation in residual elastic strains and stresses in the steady state regime of casting has been measured as a function of radial position using neutron diffraction in an AA6063 grain-refined cylindrical billet.