Abstract: The deformation and heat treatment of casting CuCr25 alloy were studied for the finer Cr particles in the microstructure. The characteristics of the alloy under different cold rolling reduction and heat treatment temperature were investigated. The results show that,the plasticity of CuCr25 alloy is excellent. The reduction of the casting alloy can be as high as 95% in cold rolling at room temperature. When the reduction is more than 70%,the second phase Cr particles begin to deform,and when the reduction is up to 95%,Cr particles are deformed heavily and form a fiber morphology. After annealing at 1073K for one hour,the fiber of Cr in the microstructure is broken into some short-rod particles,and tend to turn into spherical morphology. The average Cr particle size is less than 10μm. According to these results,the processing of the deformation and heat treatment for the casting CuCr25 alloy is suggested to obtain a finer Cr phase in the microstructure.
Deformation and microstructure refinement of CuCr25 alloy
Abstract:
The deformation and heat treatment of casting CuCr25 alloy were studied for the finer Cr particles in the microstructure. The characteristics of the alloy under different cold rolling reduction and heat treatment temperature were investigated. The results show that, the plasticity of CuCr25 alloy is excellent. The reduction of the casting alloy can be as high as 95% in cold rolling at room temperature. When the reduction is more than 70%, the second phase Cr particles begin to deform, and when the reduction is up to 95%, Cr particles are deformed heavily and form a fiber morphology. After annealing at 1?073?K for one hour, the fiber of Cr in the microstructure is broken into some short-rod particles, and tend to turn into spherical morphology. The average Cr particle size is less than 10?μm. According to these results, the processing of the deformation and heat treatment for the casting CuCr25 alloy is suggested to obtain a finer Cr phase in the microstructure.