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Experimental research on the technology of two-pass different temperature rolling for thick steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plate

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Thick steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plates are one of the key materials connecting steel structures and aluminum alloy structures and have been widely used in the shipbuilding industry and other fields. However, steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plates with a total thickness of more than 10 mm and a steel layer thickness of more than 5 mm are prone to problems such as inconsistent deformation of component metals and low bonding strength during the rolling process, and cannot be continuously prepared. To solve this problem, this article proposes a two-pass different temperature rolling process for thick steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plates and conducts research on Q235B steel, 1060 aluminum, and 5083 aluminum alloy as component metals. The results show that the process is reliable. It can prepare Q235B/1060/5083 composite plates with a thickness of 15.65 mm without oxygen protection measures. Meanwhile, the interfacial shear and pull-off strength of the composite plates obtained under different experimental conditions in this article are higher than the requirements of the US military standards MIL-J-24445A and Chinese ship standard CB20091-2012. The composite plates show good performance in 90° and 137° bending tests without obvious defects. Under the best condition, a 1.48 μm interlocking diffusion layer is formed at the steel/aluminum interface of the composite plates, the interfacial shear strength exceeds 70 MPa, and the interfacial pull-off strength exceeds 110 MPa. Finally, according to the experimental results, the reasons for the feasibility of the two-pass different temperature rolling of thick steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plates are given.

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This project is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52005361), the Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2021M692373), the Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Grant No. P2022-004), the Major Project of Science and Technology of Shanxi Province (Grant No. 20181102016), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (Grant No. 201901D211011).

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  1. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Ke Chen, Wenwen Liu, Tao Wang, Na** Wang & Zhongyu Chen

  2. Advanced Forming and Intelligent Equipment Research Institute, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Ke Chen, Wenwen Liu, Tao Wang, Na** Wang & Zhongyu Chen

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Ke Chen: methodology, experiment, data sorting, investigation, writing—original draft. Wenwen Liu: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, validation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, supervision, funding acquisition. Tao Wang: methodology, investigation, validation, investigation, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition. Na** Wang: investigation, writing—original draft. Zhongyu Chen: investigation, writing—original draft.

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Chen, K., Liu, W., Wang, T. et al. Experimental research on the technology of two-pass different temperature rolling for thick steel/aluminum/aluminum-alloy composite plate. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 120, 7689–7705 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09120-4

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