Numerical Model of Microstructure and Fracture of Coated Aluminum Alloys: A Novel Design Approach
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Abstract
Al/Si alloys are considered to be one of the most promising light weight alloys that can be used extensively in aerospace and automotive industry except for the poor tribological behaviour. However, with advancement and precision of the surface coating depositing techniques, new coating design which significantly enhances the tribological properties of the light weight alloys becomes attainable. In this paper, an innovative coating design is presented and thoroughly analyzed using finite elements method. The proposed model consists of Al/Si 319 as a matrix within which the geometrically defined hard Si particles are dispersed on the surface, and a hard coating layer then deposited in between the Si particles so that the lateral movement of the Si particles is constrained. ABAQUS is utilized to model and address the effects of different parameters, such as coating material, the hard coating thickness, and geometrical shape of the Si particles on the fracture and deboning of the entire structure. Two Si particles shapes are studied: circular and elliptical. Three coating materials are investigated: DLC, CrN and Al2O3. Besides, four coating thicknesses of 4 µm , 8µm, 15µm and 20µm are tested. It is found out that there is no single significant parameter which affects the fracture and deboning of Si particles, yet it is the combination of different parameters. The Si particle geometry plays a major role in determining the critical fracture stress with a circular shape outperforms the elliptical shape. The combination the circular Si particles and the CrN as coating material gives the highest critical fracture stress. Finally, DLC does not perform well with the circular Si Particle and it show the highest possible fracture stress with elliptical Si particle
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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