Laser and Gas Metal Arc Based Dissimilar Joining of Automotive Aluminium Alloys and Steel Sheets - A Review

Das, Atanu; Bang, Hee-Seon

doi:10.5781/jwj.2018.36.5.1

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“…As reported by previous publications [ 38 , 39 ], the formation and growth of IMCs phases were dependent on local thermal characteristic and the change of the solute atom concentration. Figure 11 shows the concentration distribution of Al and Fe obtained by simulation result and EDS line scanning.…”

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The Growth Behavior for Intermetallic Compounds at the Interface of Aluminum-Steel Weld Joint

Huang

Yang

et al. 2022

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In this work, the microstructure and growth behavior of Al-Fe intermetallic compounds (IMCs), which formed at interface of weld steel-aluminum joint, are successfully analyzed via the combination of experiment and physical model. A layer IMCs consists of Fe2Al5 and Fe4Al13, in which the Fe2Al5 is the main compound in the layer. The IMCs layer thickness increases with the increase of the heat input and the maximum thickness of IMCs layer is 22 ± 2 μm. The high vacancy concentration of Fe2Al5 IMCs provides the diffusion path for Al atoms to migrate through the IMCs layer for growing towards to steel substrate. By using the calculated temperature profiles as inputs, the combined 2D cellular automata (CA)-Monte Carlo (MC) model is applied to simulate the grain distribution and interfacial morphology evolution at the Al-steel interface. This 2D model simulates the IMCs nucleation, growth, and solute redistribution. The numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental results, suggesting that the growth process can be divided four stages, and the thickness of the Fe2Al5 layer increases nonlinearly with the increase of the growth time. The whole nucleation and growth process experienced 1.7~2 s, and the fastest growth rate is 8 μm/s. The addition of Si element will influence diffusion path of Al atom to form different interface morphology. The effects of peak temperature, cooling time, and the thermal gradient on the IMCs thickness are discussed. It shows that the peak temperature has the major influence on the IMCs thickness.

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