In order to meet the demand for high strength of Al alloy in aerospace, automobile, shipbuilding and other fields, the effects of aging treatment on the microstructure and properties of Al-4.5Cu-0.8Mg alloy were systematically studied. The results show that the main strengthening phase in the microstructure of the alloy after aging was θ’ And S’ phase, the comprehensive mechanical properties of single-stage aging after aging at 165 °C for 12h was better. In the alloy aged at 185 °C for 12 hours, the strengthening phase was coarsen obviously, the tensile strength and yield strength was decrease greatly and showed obvious over aging characteristics. The comprehensive mechanical properties of two-stage aging at 105 °C / 12h + 165 °C / 5h was the best. The tensile strength, yield strength, elongation and hardness are 543 MPa and 374 MPa, 17.5% and 170.6 HV respectively.
Based on the basic truck steel wheel structure design, revised designs such as vent-hole-changed and profile-modified were proposed to solve the common fatigue failure problems .Both basic and modified design were modeled using Abaqus 3D software to calculate the stress and strain contours in the case of bending load and radial load, consequently fatigue life contours of models for each load case were calculated with the help of Brown-Miller biaxial fatigue theory. It was shown by the research that shape-optimization of wheel profile, increasing volume by 2.4%, can extend both the bending fatigue life and the radial fatigue life by 73.8% and 289% respectively.
Abstract. Based on the basic truck steel wheel shape design, revised designs such as vent-hole-changed and profile-modified were proposed to solve the common fatigue failure problems. Both basic and modified design were modeled using Abaqus 3D software to calculate the stress and strain contours in the case of bending load and radial load, consequently fatigue life contours of models for each load case were calculated with the help of Brown-Miller biaxial fatigue theory. It was shown by the research that shape-optimization of wheel profile, increasing volume by 2.4%, can extend both the bending fatigue life and the radial fatigue life by 73.8% and 289% respectively.
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