In order to develop an environment-benignly chemical conversion process to substitute the toxic hexavalent chromium treatment on Al alloy surface, a new surface treatment technology based on rare-earth element, which is to form chemical conversion coating on 6063 Al alloy was presented. In this process, Ce(NO3)3 was adopted in the chrome-free preparing solution, and KMnO4 was used as oxidant to accelerate the coating formation on 6063 Al alloy. Furthermore, an L16(43) orthogonal experiment was carried out to examine the effect of Ce(NO3)3, KMnO4 and solution temperature on the coating growth on 6063 Al alloy. Accelerants of SrCl2 and NH4VO3 were added to the preparing solution to improve the coating performance. XRD, SEM and EDS were used to analyse the coating surface structure, morphology and composition. It was found that a good anti-corrosion coating which is mainly composed of the elements of Al, Ce, O, Mn, Mg could be formed in the optimal preparing solution of 5g/L Ce(NO3)3 , 4g/L KMnO4, 1.4g/L SrCl2 at the temperature of 20°C.
By adding tannic acid and film-forming accelerator in the treatment solution containing titanium and zirconium ions, a golden conversion coating on the surface of aluminum alloy was prepared. The main component and corrosion resistance of the conversion coating were characterized by means of EDS, SEM, XRD and electrochemical workstation. The conversion coating was golden and showed as uniform cubical crystal. results also showed that the main component of the conversion coating was Na3AlF6. In potentiodynamic polarization test, the corrosion current density of the aluminum alloy decreases to 0.083 A•cm-2 from 5.894 A•cm-2, which indicated an obvious improvement of corrosion resistance.
In order to develop an environment-friendly method of forming a chemical conversion
coating on 2024 aluminium alloy surface without the toxic hexavalent chromium compounds, in
this paper a process with sodium molybdate and potassium permanganate as the main compositions
of the treating bath has been investigated. Solution composition and process parameters have been
optimized. The chemical conversion coating has good corrosion resistance, evaluated with dropping
test. Micro-structure and components of the conversion coating have been studied by various
micro-analysis methods, and the growth mechanism of the chemical conversion coating has also
been investigated.
The Mg-3% Al melt was treated by carbon inoculation and Fe addition. The influence of Fe on the formation of nucleation was investigated. That Fe inhibited the grain refinement of the carbon-inoculated Mg-3%Al alloy or not was closely associated with the operating sequence of carbon inoculation and Fe addition. Under the condition of Fe addition firstly and then carbon inoculation, the Al4C3particles and the particles with duplex phase structure of Al4C3coated on Al-C-Fe or Al-Fe could be observed. Both kinds of particles should act as nucleating substrates for a-Mg grains, resulting in no obvious effect of Fe on refining efficiency of carbon inoculation. Under the contrary condition, the potency of Al4C3nucleating substrates was poisoned by transforming Al4C3into Al-C-Fe-rich intermetallic particles, resulting in grain-coarsening.
In this paper, the effect of ceramsite aggregate size and gradation on the sound absorption and mechanical properties of the materials were studied and the relationship between material’s pore structure and its sound absorption were discussed. It can be found from the results that the sound absorption and mechanical properties of the ceramsite sound-absorbing materials increase with the content of the fine ceramsite increased due to the decrease of the median pore diameter of the ceramsite sound-absorbing materials where the improvement of the sound absorption at the high frequency band is more significant suggesting that fine pores have a better sound-absorbing effect for high-frequency noise. Higher effective porosity doesn’t mean better sound absorption, because materials with coarse pores have shorter internal routes for sound waves and less friction during sound waves passing through pores, which conversely decreases the material’s sound absorption. Ceramsite with higher internal porosity and more uniform pore diameter distribution can produce materials with better sound absorption.
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