Investigation of ECAR Routes on Mechanical Properties of Explosive-Welded Al-Cu Bimetal

Equal channel angular rolling (ECAR) is a severe plastic deformation method that covered plastic deformation of sheets. In this study, effects of ECAR route shave been investigated on the mechanical and microstructure properties of explosive-welded Al-Cu bimetal. At first, the explosive welding process has been performed to prepare the Al-Cu bimetals. Then, to relieve the stress and preparing of samples for ECAR process, the annealing process of the samples was done. Finally, the ECAR process was performed on the samples in two routes A and C. Results showed that yield and tensile strengths and micro hardness of ECARed samples significantly increased with increasing the number of passes, whereas their ductility decreased. The yield strength of bimetals has been increased from 80 MPa to 100 MPa and 130 MPa at the routes A and C, respectively. Also, with increasing the number of ECAR passes, the grain size of the ECARed bimetals decreased to about 2μm.