Tensile modeling of titanium-aluminum composite with a wave profile of a welded joint and local melts

Abstract

Finite element simulation of tensile deformation of titanium-aluminum composite D20 – AD1 – VT6 was carried out. The joint boundary had a wave profile and local melts. 3D modeling of deformation of the composite D20 – AD1 – VT6 with a wave profile of the welded joint was carried out using the SIMULIA / Abaqus software. The relative thickness of the AD1 interlayer and the area of the melt were varied during the simulation. To determine for metal hardening during plastic deformation and the failure deformations for aluminum and aluminum alloy both Johnson-Cook deformation and fracture models was used. The influence of the size of the local melting zone and thickness of the soft interlayer on the distribution of stresses and strains in the composite is shown. The wave profile of the boundaries junction leads initially to localization of plastic deformation in the aluminum interlayer in the zone of free surfaces of the sample near the interface with the titanium alloy. A change in the length of vortices with areas of local melting near the tops of the wave profile from 0.3 to 0.8 mm had little effect on the profile of the curves “equivalent stress-absolute elongation of the sample”.