Influence of coupling with calculation of phase diagrams on microsegregation forming simulation of Al-4.5Cu alloy

摘要

The effect of coupling with calculation of phase diagrams on microsegregation forming simulation was investigated. The traditional simplified phase diagram and calculated phase diagram were introduced into the numerical models respectively and simulation on microsegregation forming of the Al-4.5%Cu alloy ingot was also presented. The simulation results were both compared with the experiment results. The results show that the calculated sencondary arm spacing with these two kinds of phase diagram are almost the same because relationship between the coarsening model and the information of phase diagram is not close. The calculated eutectic phase volume fractions of different locations in the ingot coupled with different phase diagrams are discrepant. The calculated volume fractions are consistent with the experiment results when calculated phase diagram couples, but are far from the experiment results and obviously inacceptable when traditional simplified phase diagram couples. So, coupling with accurate calculated phase diagrams is very significant for microsegregation forming simulation since much information of the phase diagram is used in the models and it can improve the precision of simulation results.