Abstract
A finite element model of friction stir welding capable of re-meshing is used to simulate the temperature variations. Re-meshing of the finite element model is used to maintain a fine mesh resolving the gradients of the solution. The Kampmann–Wagner numerical model for precipitation is then used to study the relation between friction stir welds with post-weld heat treatment (PWHT) and the changes in mechanical properties. Results indicate that the PWHT holding time and PWHT holding temperature need to be optimally designed to obtain FSW with better mechanical properties. Higher precipitate number with lower precipitate sizes gives higher strength in the stirring zone after PWHT. The coarsening of precipitates in HAZ are the main reason to hinder the improvement of mechanical property when PWHT is used.
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Introduction
Friction stir welding (FSW) has been in use for more than 20 years. As a solid-state joining technique, FSW has many advantages compared to fusion welding, like lower defects and distortions, less contaminations, etc. (Ref 1). FSW is suitable for joining aluminum alloys (Ref 2, 3), magnesium alloys (Ref 4,5,6), titanium alloys (Ref 7, 8), coppers (Ref 9, 10), steels (Ref 11,12,13), and even dissimilar metals (Ref 14,15,16). FSW has been applied to automobile, high-speed train, ship, aeronautic, and aerospace industries (Ref 17, 18). Several new technologies building on FSW exist like friction stir processing, friction stir spot welding, etc. Mishra et al. (Ref 19) originally proposed friction stir processing (FSP). FSP was systematically studied by Ma et al. (Ref 20) who found that it caused larger superplasticity.
Several factors are important for controlling FSW qualities. Some aspects are the plastic behavior of the material, the heat generation, and the microstructural evolution. The microstructure after FSW is the most important factor for the controlling the weld quality. It can be affected by the generated heat and the plastic deformation. The Zener–Hollomon parameter is generally used for predictions of grain sizes and grain distributions. Zhang et al. (Ref 21) proposed an effective model with combination of Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) model (Ref 22) for prediction of mechanical properties of friction stir welds based on Z-parameter calculations. This method was used in friction stir spot welding (Ref 23) for prediction of grain sizes in an aluminum alloy. It has also been applied to friction stir welding of aluminum, magnesium, titanium, and steel alloys for evaluations of grain sizes and hardness changes (Ref 24,25,26,27). The Monte Carlo method is a more accurate method for grain structure calculations and has been systematically used for prediction of grain growth in fusion welding technologies (Ref 28,29,30,31,32). It can be also applied to FSW (Ref 33, 34). The Zener–Hollomon based model (Ref 35) is faster than the Monte Carlo approach.
As mentioned above, microstructural evolution affects mechanical properties of FSW. This also includes precipitate evolution in the case of Al-Mg-Si alloy. A sequentially coupled model, according to Simar et al. (Ref 36), is used to predict the precipitate evolutions in FSW. Genevois et al. (Ref 37) proposed a mixing law for prediction of the yield stress in the welding zones. The precipitate evolution is assumed to be determined by the thermal history, both for the welding and for the following heat treatments, and be connected to the evolution of mechanical properties. Shercliff and Ashby (Ref 38) proposed a semiempirical model based on the classical kinetics theory to describe the changes in yield strength. Myhr and Grong (Ref 39), Shercliff et al. (Ref 40), and Robson et al. (Ref 41) modified this model and applied it for prediction of the hardness distributions in friction stir welds of age hardening of heat-treatable aluminum alloys. This model can be fitted well to predict precipitate evolution of the 2XXX, 6XXX, 7XXX aluminum alloys. However, it can be only applied when the peak-aged state is the initial state due to the assumption that the number density of precipitates is constant. Myhr and Grong (Ref 42) further proposed a new model based on the KWN model (Ref 43) for more accurate description of precipitation in isothermal and non-isothermal states. This model is integrated into the finite element code as a coupled thermal–metallurgical–mechanical model (Ref 44, 45).
The mechanical properties are usually lower in the SZ than in the base metal for FSW of Al-Mg-Si alloys. They can be recovered by the PWHT (Ref 46,47,48). Precipitation kinetics of a supersaturated solid solution of Mg in Al-Mg-Si experiences during the aging process as the following steps: SSSS (supersaturated solid solution) → atomic clusters → G.P. zones → β″(Mg5Si3) → β′(Mg5Si3) → β(Mg2Si). Precipitates can grow from smaller β″ to β′ in a metastable state. Finally, stable precipitate β can be formed at room temperature. In this process, the evolution of the precipitate distribution plays the key role. The variation of mechanical properties and the formation of residual stresses can affect the final fatigue behavior inside and near the weld, which have been systematically investigated numerically and experimentally (Ref 49,50,51,52,53).
The aim of this work is to develop an integrated model as summarized above in order to be able to describe the FSW and PWHT processes and in the end their effect on precipitation and mechanical properties. The model can be used to optimize PWHT for better controlling the final weld quality. The paper gives details of the model, with appropriate referencing and results for a specific case where hardness evaluation has been validated.
Numerical Models
Finite Element Model
A rotating tool is inserted into the centerline of the weld in a speed of 0.1 mm/s. In this plunging process, the material around the welding tool is preheated. Preheating is very important for FSW to avoid welding defects (Ref 54). The welding speed is 100 mm/min, and the rotating speed is 1000 rev/min. The diameter of the shoulder is 10 mm, and the pin diameter is 3 mm. The tilt angle is 2°. The material of the welding tool is H13 steel and is treated as a rigid body in the finite element model. The welded plate becomes 50 mm × 80 mm × 3 mm. The material of the welding plate is AA6005 initially in peak-aged state. The finite element model of the welding plate consists initially of 22,423 elements. The flow stress of AA6005 is temperature dependent, as shown in Fig. 1. Due to the fact that the temperature fields can be accurately predicted even if the physical parameters are considered to be constant (Ref 55, 56), the physical parameters used in this model are also considered to be constant, as shown in Ref 22.
The temperature field can be obtained by solving the semi-discretized heat conduction equation,
where C T is the heat capacity matrix, K T is the thermal conductivity matrix, T is temperature, and P T is the heat flux vector. This FE formulation for calculating the new temperature can be found by the finite difference approximation as follows (Ref 57):
where β is the parameter controlling the convergence of the time and is selected to be 0.75.
The solution procedure of the mechanical response is based on the assumption of quasi-static conditions. The semi-discretized equilibrium equations are
where \(F_{\text{int}}\) is the vector of internal forces due to stresses and \(F_{\text{ext}}\) is the vector due to the applied thermal and mechanical loads. Utilizing a conjugate gradient iterative solution procedure leads to,
where K is the tangent stiffness matrix and ΔU is the incremental displacements. Strains and stresses are subsequently computed from the obtained displacements.
The solution of these fields is updated at the end of each time increment and then mapped onto a new generated mesh. Detailed information on re-meshing technique can be found in Ref 58, 59. Re-meshing is used to avoid mesh distortions and entanglements. This is very important for the successful simulation of the FSW process. Deform 3D is used to simulate the friction stir welding process. Traced particles are used to track the material flows in the FSW process, and then the thermal histories of these traced particles are extracted for further calculations on microstructural evolutions. This method has been successfully used to simulate the grain growth in FSW (Ref 33). FORTRAN code is compiled for calculations of the precipitates and mechanical properties of the friction stir welds.
Heat Generation
In FSW, the heat is generated by both friction and plastic deformation (Ref 56). The frictional generated heat due to the contact between the pin and the plate material on a node is given by
where f i is the friction force on a node tangential to the contact. It is obtained from the contact algorithm, where it is computed from the used friction model. δ determines the amount of frictional work that becomes heat and is chosen as 0.9 (Ref 60). \(\dot{\gamma }\) is the relative velocity between the contact surfaces. The relative sliding velocity is obtained from,
where \(\dot{\gamma }\) is evaluated at the contact point. The nodal power \(p_{i}\) is assembled to \(P_{\text{T}}\) in Eq 1 for all nodes that are in sliding contact.
The heat due to plastic dissipation in an integration point of an element is,
where η represents the inelastic heat fraction, which is selected to be 0.9 by default, σ is the stress tensor, and \(\dot{\varepsilon }^{\text{p}}\) is the corresponding tensor of plastic strain rate. The plastic dissipated energy is integrated over an element and distributed to its nodes and then assembled to \(P_{\text{T}}\) in Eq 1. The flow stress is tabulated in a multi-dimensional table where it is a function of plastic strain, its rate, and temperature (Ref 60),
Precipitation Evolution Model and Flow Stress Model
The precipitation evolution model (Ref 61, 62) is combined with the above-mentioned re-meshing model to simulate the precipitation evolutions in FSW and calculate the mechanical properties in FSW with different post-weld heat treatments. The formation of the precipitates in Al-Mg-Si alloy consists of the nucleation and the coarsening processes. Kampmann–Wagner numerical model is used for calculation of precipitate evolutions. With the calculated precipitation, the yield strength of the weld can be computed. The yield strength of the friction stir weld can be divided into three parts,
where σ 0 is the intrinsic yield strength of pure aluminum, σ ss is the additional contribution from solid solution, and σ preci from precipitates.
The solid solution contribution to the flow stress (Ref 62) is computed by,
where k i is the scaling factor for alloying element i and C i is its concentration. The solute elements for solid solution are Mg, Si, and Cu, indexed i = 1, 2, and 3. k 1 = 66.3 (MPa/wt.%2/3), k 2 = 29 (MPa/wt.%2/3), and k 3 = 46.4 (MPa/wt.%2/3) (Ref 62).
The precipitate contribution to the flow stress is given by,
where M is the Taylor factor, b is the Burgers vector, and \(\bar{L}\) is mean particle spacing along the dislocation line.\(\bar{F}\) is the mean obstacle strength, expressed as,
where \(F_{i} (r)\) is the obstacle strength of a given discretized class. It is a function of the particle radius r i . Small particles are sheared, particle cutting, by dislocations, whereas they bow around large precipitates. There is a critical radius r c separating these two regions. The strength of small particles is proportional to their radius (Ref 62),
Strong particles, characterized by r i > r c , are assumed to have a constant strength that is (Ref 62),
where β is the dislocation tension factor taken as 0.36 and G is the shear modulus of aluminum matrix, which is 2.7 × 1010 Pa.
Meanwhile, the mean particle spacing \(\bar{L}\) along the dislocation line can be replaced by a function of mean particle radius \(\bar{r}\) according to Ref 62. Then, Eq 11 can become,
Results and Discussions
The precipitate model is validated by comparing measurements from Myhr et al. (Ref 62) with simulations for the isothermal (185 °C) heat treatment of precipitates in Fig. 2. It also includes measured and computed hardness changes. The used temperature curve is shown in Fig. 2(a). The number density and the average sizes agree well with measurements, as shown in Fig. 2(b). Hardness, as well as the yield strength, is one of the most important mechanical properties for welded material. Linear relation can be found between the flow stress and the hardness (Ref 63). The yield strength and the tensile strength can be treated as the start and end points of linear curve of the calculated flow stress. The linear relation is also clearly observed in experimental tests (Ref 63, 64). Then, a linear relation between the hardness and the flow stress can be obtained (Ref 65),
The flow stress is obtained from Eq 9, which includes the effect of precipitates. Predicted hardness and measured hardness are shown in Fig. 2(c). When the precipitate density starts to grow, the hardness of the material is increased. When the precipitate density reaches its maximum and then starts to decrease, the hardness has not reached its maximum and is still increasing. In current stage, smaller precipitates are dissolved and bigger precipitates grow, as shown in Fig. 2(d). Figure 2(d) shows computed size distributions discretized into about 1000 size classes (0.01 nm is selected as the interval size). Most of the precipitate radii are still smaller than the critical radius. The strength of material is governed by Eq 13. This is the reason that the hardness can be still increased in current stage. When the precipitates further grow, the mean radius is obviously bigger than the critical radius. The strength of the material is then governed by Eq 14, which can lead to the obvious hardness decrease.
Figure 3 shows the comparison between the calculated values and the corresponding numerical and experimental results in FSW for further validations. Figure 3(a) shows the used temperature curves. With consideration of the temperature curves, the precipitate radii and the volume fraction of precipitates can be calculated by use of the compiled code. The volume fraction and the mean radius of the precipitates are compared with the numerical results from Ref 36 with the same temperature input in the compiled code. The comparison shows the current code is very successful. Then, the hardness can be calculated by use of the Eq 16. The calculated hardness by current code can be compared to the experimental data (Ref 36). In this experiment, Vickers 1 kg hardness test is performed on the transverse section. The comparison of the numerical and experimental results can be fitted well, which can further validate the current model.
By use of the finite element re-meshing model of FSW, the temperature distributions and histories can be obtained, as shown in Fig. 4. The validity of the model for prediction of temperatures in FSW has been shown in our previous work (Ref 66). The whole FSW process lasts for 135 s. The effective plastic strain distribution at the end of FSW is shown in Fig. 5. The evolution of precipitates and corresponding mechanical property changes at the location being 6 mm away from weld centerline is shown in Fig. 6. The precipitate evolution from solid solution to the initial state before welding is computed by an “artificial ageing” (AA) step with the temperature shown to left in Fig. 6(a). This gives the T6 state of AA6005 as the initial state. The temperature history shown to right in Fig. 6(a) is obtained from the FSW simulation at a point 6 mm away from the weld center line. The rate of nucleation of precipitates increases with temperature, as can be seen from Fig. 6(a) and (b). However, there is a reduction in this rate after some aging when the amount of precipitates has been increased. It can also be seen in Fig. 6(b) that the precipitate number density decreases with temperature due to the dissolution of the small particles. The dissolution can lead to a quick decrease in the volume fraction of precipitates. However, the coarsening that takes place gives much larger precipitates that maintain the volume fraction of precipitates to be constant, as shown in Fig. 6(c). This leads to a fairly constant flow stress, as shown in Fig. 6(d), despite of the dissolution of small precipitates.
The final computed precipitate distribution and hardness after welding for a cross section are shown in Fig. 7. The strengthening loss in the nugget zone for Al-Mg-Si is obvious. The volume fraction of precipitates after welding is about 0.04% in this zone according to Fig. 7(a). The volume fraction of precipitates is about 0.78% in the base metal. This shows that the decrease in volume fraction of precipitates is the main reason for reduced strength in the stirring zone, as shown in Fig. 7(b). It can be also seen that the precipitate sizes in the heat affected zone are larger than in the SZ and the base metal. Further increase in temperature can lead to a further increase in the precipitate sizes, i.e, more overaging, which can lead to even lower flow stress.
The effect of PWHT on mechanical properties of friction stir welding is shown in Fig. 8. Both the holding time and holding temperature can affect the final mechanical properties of friction stir weld. So, different cases, including 3, 5, and 8 h as holding times and 140, 160, 180, and 200 °C as holding temperatures, are investigated in detail. The hardness in the weld centerline is rising from 47VPN of as-welded state up to 64VPN, 65VPN, and 67VPN for holding times of 3, 5, and 8 h with holding temperature of 140 °C, respectively. When the PWHT holding temperature is increased to 160 °C with holding times of 3, 5, and 8 h, the hardness in SZ is increased to 71VPN, 76VPN, and 81VPN. When the PWHT holding temperature is further increased to 180 °C, the value in SZ is recovered up to 85.5VPN, 88.8VPN, and 89.4VPN. This is about 95% of the base metal for the holding time of 8 h. This recovery stems from the increase in the precipitate volume fraction in SZ. Increases in both the holding time and holding temperature can lead to the increase in the hardness in SZ when the holding temperature is not excessively high. The effect of holding time on recovery of mechanical property is not as strong as the holding temperature. A further increase in PWHT holding temperature to 200 °C does not give a corresponding improvement. For the PWHT holding temperature of 200 °C, hardness in SZ is recovered to 85.8VPN (3 h), 83.3VPN (5 h), and 80.5VPN (8 h). The increase in the holding time leads to a decrease in hardness in SZ. The precipitates grow quickly when the PWHT temperature is excessively high. Further increase in holding time will lead to a further increase in precipitate sizes. Thus, the PWHT holding time and temperature need to be selected with care. But it is also found from Fig. 8 that the mechanical property of HAZ is not obviously improved by PWHT.
To explain the variation of mechanical properties in SZ and HAZ, the volume fractions and the mean radii of the precipitate sizes are shown in Fig. 9 and 10. When the PWHT temperature is increased from 140 to 160 and 180 °C with holding time of 3 h, the volume fraction of precipitates in the weld centerline is increased from 0.1 to 0.3 and 0.67%. The mean radius of precipitate is increased from 3.1 to 3.2 nm and 4.1 nm. The increase of mechanical property stems from the increase of the volume fraction. For the case of holding time of 5 h shown in Fig. 9(b) and 10(b), the volume fractions are 0.19, 0.41, and 0.77%. The mean radii are 3, 3.3, and 4.8 nm. For the case of holding time of 8 h shown in Fig. 9(c) and 10(c), the volume fractions are 0.22, 0.56, and 0.83%. The mean radii are 2.9, 3.5, and 5.2 nm. When the holding temperature is increased from 140 to 160 and 180 °C with holding time of 3 h, the volume fractions of precipitates in HAZ are 0.4, 0.44, and 0.58%. Meanwhile, the mean radii of precipitates in HAZ are 6.6, 6.3, and 6.9 nm. When the holding time is 5 h, the mean radii of precipitates in HAZ are 6.45 nm (140 °C), 6.16 nm (160 °C), and 7.31 nm (180 °C). The corresponding volume fractions are 0.41, 0.47, and 0.68%. When the holding time is up to 8 h, the mean radii of precipitates in HAZ are 6.27 nm (140 °C), 6.08 nm (160 °C), and 7.82 nm (180 °C) and the volume fractions are 0.42, 0.51, and 0.77%. With the analysis of variation changes in hardness shown in Fig. 8, it can be concluded that in HAZ, the mean radii are nearly double than the ones in SZ with smaller volume fractions. So the obvious coarsening phenomenon in HAZ is the main reason for the fact that the mechanical property inside HAZ cannot be recovered by PWHT.
When the PWHT holding temperature is excessively high (e.g. 200 °C), the volume fraction of precipitates in SZ only rises from 0.84 to 0.86% (2.4% increase) when the holding time is increased from 3 to 8 h. But at the same time, the precipitate mean radius is increased from 5.8 to 6.7 nm (15.5% increase). The increase in mean radii of precipitates is more obvious than volume fraction. This can be the reason for the decrease of mechanical properties with longer holding time when the holding temperature is excessively high. So, the holding temperature needs to be carefully controlled for better mechanical property inside SZ in FSW.
To reveal the precipitate size distributions, Fig. 11 shows the precipitate sizes along radius direction in FSW with PWHT (3 h and 160 °C). In SZ, the mean radii are mainly focused on smaller sizes around 2.5 nm. But in HAZ, the larger precipitates around 10 nm are obviously increased. This means that the coarsening of precipitates in HAZ are the main reason to hinder the improvement of mechanical property when PWHT is used.
Conclusions
A precipitate evolution model is coupled with the FSW process model and the subsequent PWHT model. The effects of PWHT on mechanical properties of friction stir weld have been studied in detail. The main conclusions are the following:
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The larger precipitates are growing but the smaller precipitates are dissolving in the PWHT process. The changes in mean radius and volume fractions during this process control the variations of mechanical properties in FSW.
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Both the volume fractions and the sizes of precipitates can be increased with PWHT. A higher precipitate number with relatively smaller precipitate sizes leads to an increase of mechanical properties. This is the reason that the mechanical properties in the stirring zone can be recovered.
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In comparison with the stirring zone, the coarsening of precipitates in HAZ is the main reason that the mechanical properties cannot be directly improved by PWHT.
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The author (Z. Zhang) would like to acknowledge Prof. Sheng Zhang in Dalian University of Technology for the helpful discussions on finite element formulations.
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This study is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11572074).
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Zhang, Z., Wan, Z.Y., Lindgren, LE. et al. The Simulation of Precipitation Evolutions and Mechanical Properties in Friction Stir Welding with Post-Weld Heat Treatments. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 26, 5731–5740 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-017-3069-9
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