Elastic characterization by Ultrasonic waves of the unstandardized polycrystalline alloy 42500

Abstract

The objective of this work is to determine the impact of the temper heat treatment (150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200,220 and 240) °C on the evolution of the main elastic and structural properties of the alloy foundry AlSi7Zn3Cu2Mg (42500). This alloy will be subjected to precipitation hardening. This is one of the most successful methods to considerably improve the mechanical properties of the alloy, this allows choosing the compromise of high resistances while maintaining satisfactory ductility. The mechanical properties are governed by the combination of four factors: heat treatments, molding process, chemical composition and the shape of the specimen used. We used mainly four techniques namely: The ultrasonic method for the determination of the elastic characteristics, the Brinell hardness HB and the micro hardness Hv to identify the stress field, the Kcv resilience to provides information on fracture mode, brittleness and the impact resistance, and finally to completely identify the alloy, it will be followed by its metallography, microstructure and fracture surface in resilience. The purpose of this work is to study the structural hardening of the alloy AlSi7Zn3Cu2Mg (42500) by considering ten states: crude of casting noted: F taken as reference state. To improve the mechanical characteristics obtained from the crude of castingstate, a structural hardening heat treatment is carried out, the addition of magnesium is necessary in order to make the alloy sensitive to this specific heat treatment T46.

Keywords

• Al-Si
• Ultrasound
• Elasticity
• Hardness
• Resilience