Yield stress of SiC reinforced aluminum alloy composites

Journal of Materials Science - Tập 45 - Trang 4097-4110 - 2010
Min Song1, Yuehui He1, Shanfeng Fang1
1State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China

Tóm tắt

This article develops a constitutive model for the yield stress of SiC reinforced aluminum alloy composites based on the modified shear lag model, Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion approach, and Weibull statistics. The SiC particle debonding and cracking during deformation have been incorporated into the model. It has been shown that the yield stress of the composites increases as the volume fraction and aspect ratio of the SiC particles increase, while it decreases as the size of the SiC particles increases. Four types of aluminum alloys, including pure aluminum, Al–Mg–Si alloy, Al–Cu–Mg alloy, and Al–Zn–Mg alloy, have been chosen as the matrix materials to verify the model accuracy. The comparisons between the model predictions and the experimental counterparts indicate that the present model predictions agree much better with the experimental data than the traditional modified shear lag model predictions. The present model indicates that particle failure has important effect on the yield stress of the SiC reinforced aluminum alloy composites.

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