Pea - Vol. 14, No 1 - 01. 2017
Pea - Vol. 14, No 1 - 01. 2017
Pea - Vol. 14, No 1 - 01. 2017
coarse flakes to fine fibber and consequently improve the chanical properties. Magnesium’s role is to strengthen and
mechanical properties, especially the ductility. harden aluminium castings. Silicon combines with magnesi-
A standard heat treatment used for engine blocks is solu- um to form the hardening phase, Mg2Si that provides the
tion heat treatment lasting 7 hours at the temperature of strength-hening of this alloy. According to the increase of the
530°C, quenching in water at 20°C and precipitation harden- strength, the hardness is also improved.
ing for 4 hour at 160 °C. Experimental samples were solution The effect of heat treatment on mechanical properties of the
treated by different solution time (2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 hours) at AlSi7Mg0.3 alloy is shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. Utility ulti-
530°C ± 5°C, quenched in water at 20°C ± 2°C and precipi- mate tensile strength (UTS) and hardness (HBS) of specimens
tation hardened for 4 hour at 160 °C± 5°C. increase with solution treatment time. Elongation with solution
Experimental samples for a tensile test were cut from the treatment time decreases.
bulkheads of engine blocks (Fig. 1). The tensile test were The required mechanical properties for a typical alumini-
carried out on a tensile machine ZDM 30 at 21 °C following um engine block includes an ultimate tensile strength of
the STN EN ISO 6892-1 in as-cast state and after heat treat- 245 MPa, yield stress of 215 MPa, and fatigue strength of
ment; these specimens were of 14 mm in diameter by 60 MPa. These values meet all experimental heat treated
120 mm in gauge length. Values of ultimate tensile strength samples.
in dependence on heat treatment were determined by the
average value of three test bars. Hardness measurement was 350
performed by a Brinell hardness tester with the load of UTS, MPa HBS
62.5 kp, 2.5 mm diameter ball and the dwell time of 15 s 300
according to standard STN EN ISO 6506-1. The Brinell 250
hardness value at each state was obtained by the average of
at least six measurements. 200
150
100
50
0
0 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fig. 2. Effect of solution treatment time on utility tensile
strength and Brinell hardness of AlSi7Mg0.3 alloy
12
A5,% Si-size, mm2
10
8
Fig. 1. The experimental cylinder head casting and part of casting
for tensile test bar 6
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氣缸蓋鑄件質量控制
關鍵詞 摘要
AlSi鑄造合金, 用於生產汽車發動機部件鑄件的鋁合金的新挑戰來自內燃機朝向更高比功率輸出的演變趨勢
熱處理, 特別地,氣缸蓋必須承受更高的操作溫度和應力水平。
質量控制, 目前的工作描述了缸蓋鑄件的微觀結構(Si-形態和Si-
微觀結構, 尺寸)和機械性能(UTS,伸長率,布氏硬度)的質量控製作為不同T6熱處理(固溶熱處理時
機械性能 間-2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7小時。
從該研究獲得的數據將用於改進過程控制,並且幫助選擇用於未來產品的鑄件的熱處理。