Forging and heat treatment process for 7050 aluminum alloy large ring piece
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of aluminum alloy plastic forming and heat treatment, in particular to a forging and heat treatment process of a 7050 aluminum alloy large ring.
Background
The large ring is widely applied to the fields of heavy machinery, aerospace, energy sources and the like. In the aerospace field, the large ring is mainly made of 2A14 and 2219 aluminum alloy, but the strength of the 2XXX aluminum alloy is lower than that of the 7XXX aluminum alloy, and the service requirements of special products cannot be met, so that the 7XXX aluminum alloy is an important research object of the current aerospace model. The 7XXX aluminum alloy has the advantages of high specific strength, high yield ratio, good stress corrosion resistance and the like as super hard aluminum, wherein the 7050 aluminum alloy has higher comprehensive performance and is mainly used for manufacturing members bearing high loads.
The large ring is a main bearing component in the storage box structure of the space carrier, multiple acting forces such as radial compression, axial compression, bending moment and the like are applied in the service process, the stress state is complex, the comprehensive performance requirement is very high, the manufacture of the 7050 aluminum alloy large ring is a key technology for the development of the storage box of the space carrier, but the research and the manufacture of the 7050 aluminum alloy large ring are less in China at present, and no mature and stable deformation and heat treatment process can be referred.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a forging and heat treatment process for 7050 aluminum alloy large-sized ring pieces, which aims to solve the problems, and the product manufactured by the process is uniform in structure and high in comprehensive performance.
The invention adopts the technical scheme that:
A forging and heat treatment process for 7050 aluminum alloy large-sized ring parts comprises the following steps:
S1, designing the size of an ingot, namely adopting 7050 aluminum alloy semicontinuous ingot as a raw material, and designing the size of the ingot according to the size of a part, wherein the required height-diameter ratio L/D=2-2.5;
S2, heating the cast ingot, namely heating the 7050 aluminum alloy cast ingot by adopting an electric furnace, charging the cast ingot at room temperature, and heating to 430+/-5 ℃ along with the furnace, wherein the heat preservation coefficient is 2.2-3 min/mm;
s3, preheating a tool and a die, namely heating an upper hammer anvil and a lower hammer anvil in a heating furnace, preserving heat for 6-10 hours at the temperature of 250 ℃, discharging and mounting, and then coating lubricant;
s4, forging the ingot, namely forging the ingot in a three-upsetting three-drawing multi-directional forging mode, namely upsetting and drawing deformation is carried out for one time along three directions perpendicular to each other along the ingot, and then final upsetting deformation is carried out along the axial direction of the ingot, wherein a cake blank is obtained after upsetting, and the blank height is 120-500 mm;
S5, returning to the furnace for heat preservation, namely preserving the heat of the cake blank for 4-6 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
s6, punching, namely preheating and lubricating a punch, placing the punch in the center of a cake blank, slowly pressing the punch for a plurality of times, smearing lubricant after each punch is pulled out and before the punch is pressed down, and finally carrying out final punching, wherein the thickness of the continuous sheet is 100-150 mm;
S7, returning to the furnace again for heat preservation, namely preserving the heat of the cake blank for 4-6 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
S8, performing horse reaming, namely performing horse reaming and flattening end surfaces on the punched blank to prepare a ring blank;
S9, returning to the furnace again for heat preservation, namely preserving heat of the cake-shaped blank for 4-6 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
S10, ring rolling, namely preheating a roller before rolling, preserving heat for 3-5 hours at the temperature of 250 ℃, enabling the rotation speed of a main roller of the ring rolling machine to be 0.5-0.6 m/s, enabling the diameter growth rate to be 2-3 mm/s, and monitoring the material temperature in the ring rolling process to ensure that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃;
s11, machining, namely machining the surface of the ring piece after ring rolling, particularly machining the upper end face and the lower end face, and ensuring that the end faces and the inner round face and the outer round face are not folded.
S12, solution treatment, namely carrying out solution treatment on the ring piece by adopting graded solution until the ring piece is warm to enter a furnace, starting timing when the furnace temperature reaches 465 ℃, keeping the temperature for an effective size X (1.6-1.8) min, then raising the furnace temperature to 475 ℃ and keeping the temperature for 0.6-0.7 min, and finally raising the furnace temperature to 480 ℃ and keeping the temperature for 0.6-0.7 min, wherein the cooling time of the part in water after the part is out of the furnace and quenched is not less than 20min.
S13, cold deformation, namely taking out the part from the quenching tank, and then immediately cold forging, wherein the cold deformation is performed in the height direction of the ring, and the deformation is controlled to be 2-3%;
S14, aging treatment, namely aging the part in time after cold forging, aging the ring part by adopting two-stage aging, heating along with a furnace, preserving heat of the ring part for 4-6 hours at 121 ℃, preserving heat of the ring part for 4-6 hours at 176 ℃, and discharging the ring part for air cooling;
s15, machining again, and machining the aged ring piece to the target delivery size.
In the step S4, the length direction of the last drawn ingot is ensured to be the height direction of the original cast ingot after three piers and three drawing processes, the upsetting deformation in the process is ensured to be 55-65%, and the drawing deformation is ensured to be 40-50%.
And (4) monitoring the material temperature in real time in the ingot casting and forging process in the step S4, and ensuring that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃.
And the temperature of the blank after the step S6 is not lower than 380 ℃.
And S8, monitoring the material temperature in real time in the reaming process of the horse frame, and ensuring that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃.
And when the temperature in the ring rolling process of the step S10 is close to 400 ℃, the diameter growth rate is increased, and when the temperature in the ring rolling process is close to 440 ℃, the diameter growth rate is reduced.
And (S13) aging in time after the cold deformation process, wherein the interval between the cold deformation process and the aging process is within 30 min.
Aiming at 7050 aluminum alloy large-sized ring pieces with the diameter of 5m, the invention provides a full-flow forming and heat treatment process scheme, wherein the multi-directional forging process is used for fully forging the cast ingot, breaking residual crystalline phases in an as-cast structure, and gradually increasing the solid solution temperature, prolonging the solid solution time, reducing undissolved crystalline phases and improving the solid solution degree through multi-stage strengthening solid solution. The morphology and the distribution of the intragranular and grain boundary precipitated phases are regulated and controlled through double-stage aging, so that the product has high strength and high stress corrosion resistance.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a metallographic photograph of a 7050 aluminum alloy large ring of the present invention at 100 times magnification.
Fig. 2 is a metallographic photograph of a 7050 aluminum alloy large ring of the present invention at 500 x magnification.
Detailed Description
The invention relates to a forging and heat treatment process of a 7050 aluminum alloy large ring, which is used for manufacturing a 5-meter-class 7050 aluminum alloy large ring with uniform structure and high comprehensive performance by means of multidirectional forging, multistage solid solution, double-stage aging and the like.
Example 1
Aiming at a 7050 aluminum alloy 5-meter ring in a certain space carrier, the part size phi 5030 multiplied by phi 4984 multiplied by 80mm, and the forging size phi 5070 multiplied by phi 4885 multiplied by 105mm is designed in consideration of factors such as process consumption, machining allowance, sampling ring and the like;
S1, designing the size of an ingot, namely adopting 7050 aluminum alloy semicontinuous ingot as a raw material, and designing the size of the ingot to be phi 580 multiplied by 1230 according to the size of a part;
S2, heating the cast ingot, namely heating the 7050 aluminum alloy cast ingot by adopting an electric furnace, charging the cast ingot at room temperature, and heating to 430+/-5 ℃ along with the furnace, wherein the heat preservation time is 580 multiplied by 2.5 min/mm=1450 min;
s3, preheating a tool and a die, namely heating an upper hammer anvil and a lower hammer anvil in a heating furnace, preserving heat for 8 hours at the temperature of 250 ℃, discharging from the furnace, and smearing lubricant after installation;
S4, forging the ingot in a three-upsetting three-drawing multi-directional forging mode, namely upsetting the ingot in the Z direction until the H=500 mm, drawing the ingot in the X direction until the H=500 mm, upsetting the ingot in the X direction until the H=500 mm, drawing the ingot in the Y direction until the H=540×1115mm, upsetting the ingot in the Y direction until the H=500 mm, drawing the ingot in the Z direction until the H=540×1115mm, axially returning the three-upsetting three-drawing billet to the Z direction of the original ingot, upsetting the ingot in the Z direction until the H=200 mm, and monitoring the material temperature in real time in the forging process to ensure that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃;
s5, returning to the furnace for heat preservation, namely preserving heat of the cake-shaped blank for 5 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
S6, punching, namely preheating and lubricating the punch, placing the punch in the center of a cake blank, slowly pressing the punch for a plurality of times, smearing lubricant after each punch is pulled out and before the punch is pressed down, finally forming a skin with the thickness of 120mm, and finally punching to ensure that the temperature of the blank after punching is not lower than 380 ℃;
s7, returning to the furnace for heat preservation, namely preserving heat of the cake-shaped blank for 5 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
S8, performing horse reaming, namely performing horse reaming and flattening end surfaces on the punched blank to prepare a ring blank, wherein the size of the ring blank is phi 2200 multiplied by phi 1740 multiplied by 205mm, and monitoring the material temperature in real time in the horse reaming process to ensure that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃;
S9, returning to the furnace again for heat preservation, namely preserving the heat of the cake-shaped blank for 5 hours at 430+/-5 ℃;
S10, ring rolling, namely preheating a roller before rolling, and preserving heat for 5 hours at the temperature of 250 ℃. The rotation speed of a main roller of a ring rolling machine is 0.6m/s, the diameter growth rate is 2.5mm/s, the diameter growth rate is reduced to phi 5090 x phi 4840 x 150mm, the temperature of a material is monitored in the ring rolling process to ensure that the final forging temperature is not lower than 380 ℃, the diameter growth rate is increased to 3mm/s when the temperature in the rolling process is close to 400 ℃, and the diameter growth rate is reduced to 2mm/s when the temperature in the rolling process is close to 440 ℃.
S11, machining, namely carrying out surface machining on the ring piece after ring rolling, in particular to the upper end face and the lower end face, ensuring that the end faces and the inner and outer round faces are not damaged by folding and the like, and machining to phi 5090 multiplied by phi 4840 multiplied by 130mm.
S12, solid solution treatment, namely solid solution treatment is carried out on the ring piece by adopting graded solid solution until the temperature reaches 465 ℃, timing is started, the temperature is kept for 220min, the temperature of the furnace is increased to 475 ℃ and kept for 80min, and finally the temperature of the furnace is increased to 480 ℃ and kept for 80min. And cooling the parts in water for not less than 20min after the parts are discharged from the furnace and quenched.
S13, cold deformation, namely taking out the part from the quenching tank, then immediately cold forging (the process interval is controlled within 30 min), and cold-pressing and deforming in the height direction of the ring piece, wherein the deformation is controlled to be 3-4.5 mm.
S14, aging treatment, namely aging the parts in time after cold forging, controlling the process interval within 30min, aging the ring by adopting two-stage aging, and heating along with a furnace. The ring was incubated at 121 ℃ for 6h and at 176 ℃ for 4h. And discharging the ring piece from the furnace for air cooling.
S15, machining, namely machining the ring piece to the target delivery size phi 5070 multiplied by phi 4885 multiplied by 105mm.
The 5m ring microstructure manufactured by the forging and heat treatment process of the 7050 aluminum alloy large ring piece is shown in figure 1. The mechanical properties are shown in table 1,
TABLE 1
As can be seen from FIGS. 1 and 2, the 7050 aluminum alloy large ring treated by the process has uniform structure, fine crystal grains and the grain size is about 10-20 μm. As can be seen from Table 1, the mechanical property level of the part is higher, the tangential strength is 600MPa, the elongation is 13%, the tangential strength is 546MPa, the elongation is 7.8%, the tangential strength is 580MPa, the elongation is 6%, and no performance low value point exists in each direction.
The foregoing describes the embodiments of the present invention in detail, but the description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. All equivalent changes and modifications within the scope of the present invention are intended to be covered by the present invention.