开展了激光表面处理条件下A1-Pb合金的快速凝固实验,获得了富Pb相粒子弥散分布于A1基体的合金表面层,原合金表层内富Pb相粒子经激光表面处理后得到明显细化.分析了激光表面处理层的凝固组织特征,建立了激光表面处理条件下偏晶合金组织演变模型,模拟计算了A1-Pb偏晶合金表面处理层凝固组织形成的动力学过程.实验和模拟相结合,分析了合金表面处理层在升温熔化、富Pb相液滴溶解及熔体均匀化和冷却凝固过程中的组织演变行为.结果表明,激光表面处理技术是获得富Pb相高度弥散分布的A1-Pb合金表面层的有效方法.
Monotectic alloys have great potentials to be used in industry due to their special physical and mechanical properties. But these alloys have an essential drawback that just the miscibility gap in the liquid state poses problem during solidification. When a homogeneous, single-phase liquid is cooled into the miscibility gap, the components are no longer miscible and two liquid phases develop. Generally, the liquid-liquid decomposition causes the formation of the microstructure with serious phase segregation. Recent researches demonstrate that the only effective method to prevent the formation of the phase segregated microstructure in the immiscible alloys is using the rapid or sub-rapid solidification processing techniques. Laser surface treatment is a well known rapid solidification technique. It is widely applied in the industry to improve the surface properties of different type of alloys. But up to date, the solidification behaviors of the monotectic alloys under the laser surface treatment conditions have not been investigated. In this work, laser surface treatment experiments with A1-Pb alloys were carried out. A numerical model was developed to describe the microstructure evolution in the surface layer of A1-Pb alloys under the conditions of laser surface treatment. The model was applied to calculate the microstructure formation in the surface layer. The numerical results have a good agreement with the experimental ones. Both of the numerical and experimental results indicate that the microstructure of the laser treated surface layer is determined by the re-melting, composition homogenization and solidification of the alloy. Laser surface treatment can lead to the formation of an A1-Pb surface layer with well dispersed microstructure.