چكيده به لاتين
Aluminum alloys due to their low density and high strength and specific stiffeness
have received attention in aerospace and automotive industries more intensively.
Among aluminum alloys, Al-Li alloys, because of their exceptional properties,
have received attention more than ever. Nowadays, third generation of Al-Li
alloys have been widely used in aerospace industry. However, since T8 heat
treatment is the conventional treatments subjecting on these alloys and in some
cases, it is not possible to apply it, therefore the aim of this project was to apply
T6 heat treatment on AA 2198 alloy. In this project, by changing heat treatment
parameters like heating rate and type of quenching, mechanical properties of this
alloy were investigated by hardness test, tensile test and residual stress
measurement. Also, microstructure was investigated by X-Ray diffraction (XRD)
and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that applying high
heating rate leads to 25% decrease in the time of reching maximum hardness than
T8. However, the controlled-quench leads to 64% decrease in this time. Tensile
test demonstrates that controlled-quench makes a little increment in Ultimate
tensile strength (4.5%), but elongation has increased 35% more than normal
quench state. Also, surface residual stress which is applied in controlled-quench
is -100 MPa and by considering the magnitude of residual stress in normal state
(-350 MPa), this stress has been reduced 70% which is a remarkable achievement.