Aging Profiles of AlSi7Mg0.6 and AlSi10Mg0.3 Alloys Manufactured via Laser-Powder Bed Fusion: Direct Aging versus T6

The artificial aging heat treatments performed directly on as-built and solubilized AlSi7Mg0.6 and AlSi10Mg0.3 samples were characterized and discussed. The analysed bars and billets (height of 300 mm) were manufactured via the Laser Powder-Bed Fusion process on a build platform heated at 150 °C. Therefore, its influence on the as-built samples was studied in terms of mechanical performance variations between the bottom and top regions. Vickers microhardness measurements were performed to obtain aging profiles after direct aging (175–225 °C) and T6 heat treatments and to highlight better time and temperature parameters to optimize the mechanical properties of both alloys. SEM observations were used to characterize the microstructure before and after the heat treatments and its influence on the fracture mechanisms. Generally, the direct aging heat treatments show the same effects on both aluminium alloys, unlike the solubilization at 505 °C followed by artificial aging at 175 °C. The strengths vs. elongation values obtained after the direct aging treatments are better than those exhibited by T6 as highlighted by the quality index

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics After Pasture Installation in the Amazon Region

The objective of this paper is to present the soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics in a chronosequence made of a forest and pastures of different ages established in a Oxisol in the Western Brazilian Amazon Basin. The results of soil Carbon and Nitrogen stocks and gases fluxes were discussed. Stable 13C isotopic technique was used to calculate for a determinate age of pasture installation, the proportion of soil C remaining from the forest system and the proportion of soil C introduced by the grasses of the pasture system. The C lost from the original pool under the forest is 1.0 to 1.6 kg C m-2 concentrated during the first 5 years as pasture, and that the C fixed by the pasture (net fixation) is 1.7 to 2.3 kg C m-2 for the total period of 35 years. We agree with the assumption that cattle ranching would never be a profit-making venture as long as only the revenue from the sale of cattle is taken into account. But, now a days, the notions of taxes or refunds for C sequestration and land rehabilitation turn the management of areas that have already been converted to pasture a strategy for C sequestration

Efeito da profundidade de colocação do tubo de rega gota-a-gota na uniformidade de rega e na eficiência do uso da água em tomate de indústria

RESUMO A influência da profundidade da colocação dos gotejadores na uniformidade de rega e na eficiência do uso da água foi avaliada, durante dois anos, num ensaio em “split-plot”, com quatro repetições, sendo o tratamento principal a profundidade de colocação do tubo de rega: à superfície do solo (P0), a 20 cm (PI) e a 40 cm (PII) e o secundário a cultivar: Brigade e H3044. Nos dois anos, o débito médio dos gotejadores foi semelhante nos diferentes tratamentos. Os coeficientes de uniformidade (CU) e de variação (CV) e a uniformidade de distribuição (UD), determinados após a colheita da cultura, não foram afectados pela profundidade de colocação do tubo, tendo variado respectivamente, entre 96,5 e 98,2%, 1,91 e 4,15% e 94,5 e 97,4%. A rega gota-a-gota subsuperficial, comparativamente com a superficial, contribuiu para o aumento da eficiência do uso da água (Produção comercial/ETa) em 14%, fundamentalmente devido a uma diminuição da ETa, na fase inicial da cultura

06/27/1997 - Stanbery Receives Warner Scholarship.pdf

The present study focuses on double-lap Friction Stir Welded (FSW) joints in 2024T3 and 7075T6 aluminium alloys subjected to several post-welding-heat treatments at warm (typical aging) and high temperature (solution range) followed by room temperature deformation (tensile tests). The effect of post-welding-heat treatments on the microstructure and mechanical properties of double lap FSW joints were investigated. Polarized Optical Microscopy (POM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis reveal a progressive change in grain size and morphology in high temperature post-welding-heat treated joints, leading to Abnormal Grain Growth in the stir zone. Stress–strain curves are rather flat for 200 and 300 C post-welded heat treated joints while, for the other set of samples, stress increases with strain to reach maximum stress of 140–160 MPa. Micro-hardness profiles measured on transversal sections of post-welded heat treated joints reveal conditions (temperature and time) of hardness homogeneity at top, bottom and central nugget zone and/or along the whole measured profile. When homogeneity is reached, fracture occurs in the nugget. A relationship between hardness and tensile properties has been applied in the nugget

12/31/1996 - Recipient of Special ED Award Edwards

Una lega di alluminio della serie 6060 è stata caratterizzata dal punto di vista microstrutturale e meccanico sianello stato come ricevuto che in quello solubilizzato. In particolare l’effetto del trattamento di solubilizzazione a587°C in funzione del tempo di mantenimento in temperatura (fino a 25h) è stato analizzato medianteindagine microstrutturale e prove di durezza e conducibilità elettrica. La deformabilità a caldo del materiale èstata studiata mediante prove di trazione a caldo per temperature comprese tra 400 e 490°C e velocità dideformazione tra 10-2 e 10-5 s-1 su campioni sia nello stato as-cast che in quello solubilizzato (585°C-7h).L’analisi dei dati tramite equazioni costitutive ha permesso di valutare l’energia di attivazione del processo cheè risultata conforme a quanto riportato in letteratura. Per entrambi gli stati del materiale il comportamento acaldo è caratterizzato da una duttilità che cresce con la temperatura di prova, da un picco di tensione seguitoda un graduale addolcimento alle basse temperature e da un plateau alle più alte temperature. A temperaturafissata invece la duttilità è inversamente proporzionale alla strain rate per il materiale solubilizzato mentrecresce con la velocità di deformazione per il materiale as cast. La microstruttura di quest’ultima ècaratterizzata dalla presenza di cavitazione mentre la lega solubilizzata ne è esente

Defect-Correlated Vickers Microhardness of Al-Si-Mg Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion with Post-process Heat Treatments

Laser powder bed fusion is an additive manufacturing process characterized by different advantages like the manufacture of samples with complex geometry without the use of tools and/or molds. Generally, the manufactured samples are characterized by high tensile strengths which, however, can be affected by the presence of defects due to the unoptimized process parameters. In a large applications field, a low density of the as-built AlSi10Mg samples is a very important parameter to considered, e.g., due to both the loss of the tensile strengths correlated with a premature failure of the samples and the increase in time and costs associated with the manufacturing process. In addition, different post-process heat treatments can increase these effects leading to an ineffective manufacturing process. In this scenario, the present work shows the analysis of spherical and lack-of-fusion pores induced by the laser powder bed fusion process on the AlSi10Mg samples and their variations after different heat treatments (direct aging and T6). At the same time, the influence of pores on the Vickers microhardness and the tensile properties has been studied in the same AlSi10Mg samples (bars and billets) that were printed with single- and double-laser machine setup. Different process parameters were also analyzed and compared. The study was supported by the microstructural and pore analysis performed by optical microscopy along the XZ plane (build direction) and the XY plane. Finally, the greatest effects of pores were observed on the Vickers microhardness values; in fact, two different relationships between microhardness and density variation are discussed. The T6 heat treatment leads to a rounding of the pores already formed in the as-built samples and to a formation of new small pores. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.