An aluminum cast alloy, containing about 20% of Si, called "Alusil", has recently been developed. Its characteristics are to have the smallest expansion coefficient among all aluminum alloys and to have other excellent properties at high temperatures. On addition of a small amount of phosphorus, the primary silicon crystals in this alloy were refined and mechanical properties of the alloy were improved.
According to the reports already described by Zaima, the machinability of this improved alloy was not very good among aluminum alloys.
Therefore, in order to improve its machinability, the authors added some elements, which are supposed to be effective in machinability, to the alloy and examined cutting resistance and the state of machined surface
in turning, milling, and drilling. Additional elements to the standard sample(Al-22% Si-0.01%P)in this study were Bi(0.050.10%), Sn(0.100.50%, ), Ca(0.050.10%), Ti(0.Ol0.08%), B(0.050.30%), Ti-B(Ti:0.01% and B: 0.050.30%), and V(0.030.30%).
The principal results obtained were as follows:
(1) On addition of Sn, cutting resistance in turning, milling, and drilling was decreased and good machined surface was obtained.
Therefore, Sn was one of the most effective additional elements in machinability of the hyper-eutectic Al-Si alloy.
(2) On addition of Bi, cutting resistance was decreased, but the machined surface was not very good.
(3) On addition of Ca, B, or B-Ti, tensile strength was decreased, and the resistance in discontinuous cutting was increased.
(4) On addition of Ti or V, some of mechanical properties were improved, but there were no effects on machinability.
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