Influence of secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS) on the fatigue properties of different conventional automotive aluminum cast alloys
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3221/IGF-ESIS.48.13Keywords:
Cast, Aluminum, SDAS, Threshold, Kitagawa-Takahashi-Diagram, Hall-Petch-RelationshipAbstract
For industrial in-series castings, the presence of casting defects, like porosity, geometrically complex intermetallic precipitates and the occurrence of eutectic silicon of varying morphologies, is well known but hard to prevent due to technical and economic limitations. To improve the performance and safety of cast aluminum products, the present work deals with the correlation between the cooling-rate-dependent secondary dendrite arm spacing (SDAS), the high- and very-high-cycle-fatigue (VHCF) behavior, the crack propagation mechanisms under pure bending with a focus on the crack propagation paths for near-threshold stress intensity factor ranges ∆KI using two conventional automotive cast aluminum alloys AlSi8Cu3 (engine blocks) and AlSi7Cu0.5Mg (cylinder heads). Furthermore, the role of a variation in porosity on the crack initiation process is discussed. Specimens were extracted from in-series castings choosing positions with a maximal difference in cooling rate and SDAS, respectively. It is shown that porosity is highly influencing the crack initiation mechanism and that the SDAS has a strong influence on both, crack propagation rate and crack propagation paths. Hence, analogies between the SDAS and the grain size as influence factor according to the Hall-Petch relationship were identified.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
Categories
License
Copyright
Authors are allowed to retain both the copyright and the publishing rights of their articles without restrictions.
Open Access Statement
Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale (Fracture and Structural Integrity, F&SI) is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the DOAI definition of open access.
F&SI operates under the Creative Commons Licence Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). This allows to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, to remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, but giving appropriate credit and providing a link to the license and indicating if changes were made.