Aging Behavior of A356.2 with Yb Modified

Abstract:

The effect of aging treatment on the aging hardening of 0% Yb and 0.4% Yb modified A356.2 alloy was investigated by hardness measurements and optical microscope. In this work, A356.2 was first subjected to 535°C for 5h and then subjected to 150°C, 180°C for 2h-12h hours. Results show that during aging process, there was a hardness peak along the increasing of aging temperature and time. With increasing aging progress, the morphology of Si phases became shorter and spherical. After optimum time, Si phases was coarse and the dendritic grain was broken. The peak-aged of unmodified alloys was 150°C for 10h and 180°C for 6h，and corresponding hardness values were 62.35HB and 77.10HB, respectively. With Yb addition, the hardness reached 87.58HB and 98.28HB on peak aging of 150°C/8h and 180°C/ 6h, respectively. The greatest degree of hardness was increased by 40.46% and 27.47%, combined with no Yb addition. XRD shows the interplanar crystal spacing of A356.2 with 0.4% Yb addition, which was larger than fresh A356.2 alloy. When adding 0.4%Yb under 180°C for 6h aging progress, the ultimate tensile strength was 284 MPa 12.7% increasing compared with former work.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 913)
• Pages: 90-95
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.913.90
• Online since: February 2018
• Authors: Shao Chen Zhang, Zhi Bin Wang, Yun Fan Dong, Kang Wang, Qi Wang, Jin Feng Leng*
• Keywords: A356.2, Aging Process, Hardness, Yb

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