Microstructural transformations and mechanical properties of cast NiAl bronze: Effects of fusion welding and friction stir processing
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Authors
Fuller, M. D.
Swaminathan, S.
Zhilyaev, A. P.
McNelley, T. R.
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NiAl bronze
Transformations
Welding
Friction stir processing
Microstructure-mechanical-property relationships
Transformations
Welding
Friction stir processing
Microstructure-mechanical-property relationships
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Date of Issue
2007
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Elsevier
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Abstract
A plate of as-cast NiAl bronze (NAB) material was sectioned from a large casting. A six-pass fusion weld overlay was placed in a machined groove; a portion of the weld reinforcement was removed by milling and a single friction stir processing (FSP) pass was conducted in a direction
transverse to the axis of and over the weld overlay. A procedure was developed for machining of miniature tensile samples and the distributions of strength and ductility were evaluated for the fusion weld metal; for the stir zone (SZ) produced by the friction stir processing; and for a region
wherein friction stir processing had taken place over the fusion weld. A region of low ductility in the heat affected zone (HAZ) of the fusion weld and in the thermomechanically affected zone (TMAZ) of friction stir processed material was attributed to partial reversion of an equilibrium
lamellar eutectoid constituent upon local heating above ∼800 ◦C and formation of non-equilibrium transformation products upon subsequent cooling. The adverse effect on ductility is worse in the heat affected zone of the fusion weld than in the thermomechanically affected zone of friction stir processing due to the lower heat input of the latter process. The implications of this work to engineering applications of friction stir processing are discussed.
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Department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineerng
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Naval Postgraduate School
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Materials Science and Engineering A, v.463, 2007, pp. 128-137
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