Nanopeening treatment was applied to the AISI 420 steel to decrease its sensitivity to tribocorrosion damage. The microstructural investigation highlighted that the nanopeening treatment led to high plastic deformation and a nanostructured surface layer with a 110 µm depth. In order to study the combined effect of corrosion and mechanical wear, tribocorrosion tests were performed on non-treated and nanopeened samples in boric acid and lithium hydroxide solutions, considering both continuous and intermittent sliding. It was found that the AISI 420 steel is sensitive to the synergy between mechanical friction and electrochemical corrosion with the dominance of abrasive wear. Adhesive wear was also detected in the wear track. Indeed, the mechanical wear was pronounced under intermittent sliding because of hard wear debris generation from the repassivated layer during rotating time. The nanopeening treatment led to enhanced mechanical performance and corrosion properties. Such improvement could be explained by the high plastic deformation resulting in the nano-structuration of grains and the increasing hardness of AISI 420 steel.
The present work addresses the printed sand mold thickness effect on the solidification process of a eutectic aluminum-silicon alloy (AlSi13). Several sand mold thicknesses (varying from 3 to 30 mm) are numerically studied using Quikcast® software. The study shows that the solidification time decreases when the sand thickness of mold increases. It is accelerated by more than 40% when the sand mold thickness increases from 3 to 30 mm. The numerical simulations are coupled with experiments. Indeed, the 3D sand printing process is used to fabricate molds presenting different thicknesses of 5 mm and 30 mm, respectively. In addition, the same printing parameters are applied for producing all sand molds. The comparison between both numerical and experimental results shows the same tendency according to the sand mold thickness. The results indicate that increasing the sand mold thickness from 5 to 30 mm allows to accelerate the solidification by 17% and 18.6%, respectively, in the numerical and experimental results. A finer microstructure is obtained when reducing the solidification time, which enhances the hardness of casting properties.
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