needle-like brittle phase and porosity defects that are prone to occur during the melting welding of SiC particle reinforced aluminum matrix composites and enhance the engineering application value of their welded structures
laser butt welding of 2 mm thick SiC
p
/2A14 aluminum matrix composites with SiC volume fraction of 15% and different thicknesses of Ti foil interlayer were carried out. The results show that the interposition of Ti foil of a certain thickness has a significant effect on improving the weld quality of the base material. The weld zone can be divided into the “newly born phases enrichment zone” at the center of the weld and the “mixed zone” away from the center of the weld. With the increase of the thickness of the Ti foil interlayer
the content of the Al
4
C
3
needle-like brittle phase in the “newly born phases enrichment zone” gradually decreases
while the content of the new phase TiC gradually increases
and the morphology of TiC gradually changes from dispersed particles to plate-like or network-like. Meanwhile
the tensile properties of the welded joint show a trend of first increasing and then decreasing. When the thickness of Ti foil interlayer is 0.05 mm
the tensile properties of the laser welded joint of SiC
p
/2A14 aluminum matrix composites in the as-welded state are the best. The average tensile strength is 263 MPa
the strength coefficient reaches 77%
and the average elongation after fracture is 1.7%. The fracture surface shows a mixed fracture feature mainly characterized by brittle cleavage fracture.
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