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CHARACTER OF ANISOTROPY AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF HOT-FORGED ALUMINUM-MATRIX COMPOSITES PRODUCED BY DIFFERENT PRODUCTION MODES
- 1 Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstract
The results of investigations of the structure and the elastic characteristics of the aluminum-matrix composites of Al-TiC system, produced by hot forging in accordance with different technological schemes are presented. It is shown that the materials obtained by hot forging differ in appreciable anisotropy, which is characterized by the elongation of the particles of the matrix phase in the direction normal to forging force. Hereupon the resulting values of both normal elasticity modulus and shear modulus in the plane normal to the direction of the deforming force during hot forging, are of 12-15% higher than the corresponding characteristics in the direction of deformation. For all of the above manufacturing processes the elastic characteristics of the investigated aluminum-matrix composites exceed by 40-70% (depending on the direction of sounding) the Young modulus of aluminum, and the respective characteristics of the shear modulus are higher by 8-15%.