The Effect of Vacuum Thermal Cycling on LF6 Aluminium Alloy Welded Joints

Abstract:

The investigation aimed at the invalidation mechanism analysis and reliability evaluation of aluminum alloy welded joint under space environment will provide spaceflight designing epartments and manufactures with important technology gist and data so as to greatly reduce paceflights manufactured cost and improve spaceflight working reliability. In this paper, the tensile properties and microstructures of LF6 aluminum alloy welded joint under vacuum thermal cycling have been studied by means of vacuum thermal cycling system. The influence of vacuum thermal cycling on the tensile properties of the welded joint has investigated. Results show that the strength and the enlongation reach their maximum values at about 75 times cycling. The changes of the tensile properties are regarded as resulted from the changes of grain and the motion of dislocation.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 297-300)
• Pages: 2843-2846
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.297-300.2843
• Online since: November 2005
• Authors: Ji Tai Niu, Wei Guo, Yong Liang Guo, Qing Chang Meng
• Keywords: LF6 Aluminum Alloy, Tensile Properties, Thermal Cycling, Weld Joint

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