Study of the effect of hafnium and erbium content on the formation of microstructure in aluminium alloy 1590 cast into a copper chill mold

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Introduction. High-magnesium aluminum alloys are widely used in the automotive, building and aerospace industries due to its low specific gravity and high strength. The characteristics of such alloys can be improved by small additions of scandium and zirconium. However, scandium is very expensive, so in new generation alloys its amount is tended to be reduced. In the recently developed 1590 aluminum alloy, this was achieved by addition of erbium and hafnium. The objective of the paper is to study the effect of erbium and hafnium concentrations on the modification of the cast structure in 1590 aluminum alloy at high solidification rates. Research Methods. The paper investigates the microstructure, chemical composition and size of intermetallic compounds in specimens from ten alloy 1590 modifications with different hafnium and erbium contents cast into a copper chill mold with a solidification rate of 10 °C/sec. The grain structure was studied using an optical microscope. The chemical composition and size of the intermetallic phases were studied using a Tescan Vega 3 scanning electron microscope. Results and discussion. It is established that as the amount of hafnium and erbium increases, the cast structure is modified. In general, grain refinement with the addition of hafnium and erbium can be explained by a higher degree of supercooling between the solid and liquid phases. At a hafnium content of 0.16 %, the dendritic structure begins to transform into an equiaxed grain structure. This transformation can be explained by the appearance of primary intermetallic compounds of the Al3Sc type in the liquid phase. Such intermetallic compounds are identified at a concentration of erbium and hafnium equal to 0.16 %. Moreover, in all alloys eutectic intermetallic compounds are identified that contained manganese and iron and had no effect on the cast structure. Comparison with previously obtained results on the grain size of specimens cast into a steel mold shows that with higher solidification rate, the structure modification in 1590 alloy is getting less efficient. This is explained by an increase in the concentration of transition elements in the solid solution, primarily scandium, necessary for the formation of primary intermetallic particles.

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A. A. Ragazin

Email: Aleksander.Ragazin@samara-metallurg.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6762-7436
Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, 34 Moskovskoe Shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation, Aleksander.Ragazin@samara-metallurg.ru

V. Yu. Arishenskii

Email: arysh54@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6869-4764
D.Sc. (Engineering), Associate Professor, Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, 34 Moskovskoe Shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation, arysh54@mail.ru

S. V. Konovlov

Email: konovalov@sibsiu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4809-8660
D.Sc. (Engineering), Professor, 1. Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, 34 Moskovskoe Shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation; 2. Siberian State Industrial University, 42 Kirova str., Novokuznetsk, 654007, Russian Federation, konovalov@sibsiu.ru

E. V. Arishenskii

Email: arishenskiy_ev@sibsiu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3875-7749
D.Sc. (Engineering), Associate Professor, 1. Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, 34 Moskovskoe Shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation; 2. Siberian State Industrial University, 42 Kirova str., Novokuznetsk, 654007, Russian Federation, arishenskiy_ev@sibsiu.ru

I. D. Bakhtegareev

Email: bakhtegareev.id@ssau.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-3081-9049
Samara National Research University named after S.P. Korolev, 34 Moskovskoe Shosse, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation, bakhtegareev.id@ssau.ru

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