Analysis of the Microstructure and Mechanical Performance of Resistance Spot-Welding of Ti6Al4V to DP600 Steel Using Copper/Gold Cold-Sprayed Interlayers-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Analysis of the Microstructure and Mechanical Performance of Resistance Spot-Welding of Ti6Al4V to DP600 Steel Using Copper/Gold Cold-Sprayed Interlayers

Published:2024-07-02 Issue:13 Volume:17 Page:3251
ISSN:1996-1944
Container-title:Materials
language:en
Short-container-title:Materials

Author:

Szwajka Krzysztof¹^ORCID,Zielińska-Szwajka Joanna²^ORCID,Szewczyk Marek¹,Mezher Marwan T.³⁴^ORCID,Trzepieciński Tomasz⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Integrated Design and Tribology Systems, Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, Rzeszow University of Technology, ul. Kwiatkowskiego 4, 37-450 Stalowa Wola, Poland

2. Department of Component Manufacturing and Production Organization, Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, Rzeszow University of Technology, ul. Kwiatkowskiego 4, 37-450 Stalowa Wola, Poland

3. Departamento de Deseño na Enxeñaría, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain

4. Institute of Applied Arts, Middle Technical University, Baghdad 10074, Iraq

5. Department of Manufacturing Processes and Production Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, al. Powstancow Warszawy 8, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland

Abstract

In this article, an attempt was made to join DP600 steel and Ti6Al4V titanium alloy sheets by resistance spot-welding (RSW) using an interlayer in the form of Cu and Au layers fabricated through the cold-spraying process. The welded joints obtained by RSW without an interlayer were also considered. The influence of Cu and Au as an interlayer on the resulting microstructure as well as mechanical properties (shear force and microhardness) of the joints were determined. A typical type of failure of Ti6Al4V/DP600 joints produced without the use of an interlayer is brittle fracture. The microstructure of the resulting joint consisted mainly of the intermetallic phases FeTi and Fe2Ti. The microstructure of the Ti6Al4V/Au/DP600 joint contained the intermetallic phases Ti3Au, TiAu, and TiAu4. The intermetallic phases TiCu and FeCu were found in the microstructure of the Ti6Al4V/Cu/DP600 joint. The maximum tensile/shear stress was 109.46 MPa, which is more than three times higher than for a welded joint fabricated without the use of Cu or Au interlayers. It has been observed that some alloying elements, such as Fe, can lower the martensitic transformation temperature, and some, such as Au, can increase the martensitic transformation temperature.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/17/13/3251/pdf

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