Correlação entre parametros termicos e microestrutura dendritica e sua aplicação na simulação da fundição de ligas de aluminio

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1996

RESUMO

This work deals with the development of a method to predict the dendritic microstructure in aluminum alloy foundry process. Firstly, an aluminum alloy used in automotive pari production was chosen to be studied in this work. Such an alloy had an average amount of 9.0% wt. of Si and 2.5% wt. Of Cu. The work was started by making the alloy metallography and thermal analysis, where the aim was to identify its phases and structures, as well its phase transformation temperatures. The final objective of such a characterization was to detect the beginning and the end ot he alloy solidification. The next step was related to the study of the alloy dendritic growth by using directional solidification technique and its purpose was to find a relationship between the solidification thermal parameters and the dendritic microstructure. Finally, two types of foundry process, in sand and in steel molds, were performed experimentally and numerically. The results obtained from directional solidification were used to simulate numerically the foundry process. The comparison between the microstructure prediction and the experimental results showed good agreement. Such a result allows one confirm that this process simulation may be used in optimization of the foundry product microstructures

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ligas de aluminio fundição solidificação

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