Impacto na camada de refusão e segregação inversa de tarugos de alumínio da série 6xxx com mudanças realizadas no molde de vazamento

Abstract

Among many variables (specifications) related to billets’ microstructure, the shell zone and the inverse segregation are directly connected to the extrusions’ productivity, which means the lower these variables are, the higher the production is, since there is less discard. The shell zone and the inverse segregation are defined as a remelted area formation that contains superior amount of alloy elements concentrated in the billet’s transverse portion perimeter. This work’s objective was to present the behavior of these variables when there is a better management of process control variables and to show how changes can be implemented to the billets molds with no need for investment in new technologies (Air Slip – Wagstaff), breaking paradigms. Slight changes performed to the molds show significant reduction at the billets’ undesired variables, assuring them high levels of competitiveness against the most technological products available at the marketplace. Through results achieved with the changes performed to the molds it was possible to verify substantial decrease in order to 50% of both the inverse segregation and the shell zone at the billets; the decrease was higher than the initial proposal.