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Preferential Site Precipitation and Subcell Stability in AA6061 Sandwich Cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

B. A. Bouwhuis  and
G. D. Hibbard
B. A. Bouwhuis
Affiliation:
bouwhui@ecf.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto, Materials Science and Engineering, 184 College St., Room 140, Toronto, M5S3E4, Canada, (416) 978-1584, (416) 978-4155
G. D. Hibbard
Affiliation:
glenn.hibbard@utoronto.ca, University of Toronto, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Toronto, M5S3E4, Canada
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Abstract

Periodic cellular metal (PCM) sandwich cores can be considered hybrids of the solid and gas type. These can be designed at both the architectural and microstructural levels. PCM cores with 95% open porosity have been constructed from perforated 6061 aluminium alloy (AA6061) sheets using a perforation-stretching method. This method places planar, periodically-perforated sheet metal in an alternating-pin jig. The pins apply force out-of-plane, plastically deforming the sheet metal into a truss-like array of struts (i.e. metal supports) and nodal peaks (i.e. strut intersections). The result is a non-uniform work-hardened profile exhibiting large deformation at the nodes and small deformation at the struts.

For identical PCM architectures, this study looks at the interaction of microstructural strengthening mechanisms and the resultant performance of PCM truss cores. Beginning with fabrication, work-hardening induced a subcell network of dislocation tangles within the AA6061 matrix. Following this stage, a variety of microstructures were created through recovery, recrystallization and precipitation mechanisms. Microhardness measurements and electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) characterization were employed through truss core cross-sections in order to study the microstructural gradients of subcell size as well as interaction between subcells and precipitates in the truss cores. To determine the effect of microstructure on mechanical performance, PCM cores were compressed to study deformation and collapse mechanisms.

The present data can be used to illustrate engineering at the architectural and microstructural levels to achieve a range of mechanical properties in a hybrid sandwich core.

Keywords

cellular (material type)cold workingalloy
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 977: Symposium FF – Processing-Structure-Mechanical Property Relations in Composite Materials , 2006 , 977-FF14-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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