• Title/Summary/Keyword: AA7075-CFRP Hybrid Center Pillar

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Effect of Heat Treatment History in Fabrication of Hybrid Center Pillar on Tensile Strength of 7075 Aluminum Alloy Sheet (하이브리드 센터필러 제조 시 열처리 이력이 7075 알루미늄 합금 판재의 인장강도에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoo, D.;Kim, J.H.;Park, S.;Jang, H.K.;Kim, D.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2021
  • As part of efforts to reduce the weight of automotive body-in-white, a hybrid center pillar with high strength 7075 aluminum alloy (AA7075) sheet and carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) has been recently studied. In the fabrication of the AA7075-CFRP hybrid center pillar, the AA7075 sheet might go through heating-forming-in-die quenching (HFQ), artificial aging, hybridizing, and then paint baking processes. In this study, we investigate the effects of the heat treatment history associated with each process on the tensile strength of the AA7075 sheet. Typical heat treatment conditions are HFQ for 20 minutes at 480℃ and then cooling down with die, artificial aging of T6 temper for 24 hours at 120℃, hybridizing for 10 minutes at 150℃, and paint baking for 20 minutes at 180℃. The tensile strength of the AA7075 sheet is continuously increased by a series of heat treatments of hybridizing and paint baking and is expected to have yield stress above 500MPa without artificial aging of T6 temper.