Abstract
The impact welding of aluminum onto copper was carried out using a gas gun, and the mechanical properties of Al/Cu joint were investigated by tensile tests and micro hardness indentation tests. The bonding strength measured by tensile test decreased with increasing an impact velocity. The results of the tensile tests suggested that it was necessary to make a microscopic survey of the joint interface. Then, the inverse analysis with FEM analysis was applied to the load versus depth curves measured by the indentation technique to identify the material constants in the constitutive equations of aluminum, copper and the compound layer. In addition, the numerical simulation for the tensile test was carried out using the identified material constants of aluminum, copper and the compound layer. The nominal stress-strain curve of the compound layer obtained by the numerical simulation showed the typical feature of brittle materials. The ultimate tensile stress of the compound layer was calculated to be about 1.4 GPa and ten times larger than that of aluminum. It was concluded that the bonding strength of Al/Cu joint was dependent on the integrity of the compound layer.
