The drawing process for the manufacture of an aluminum alloy liner has been very little studied, perhaps due to the low tonnage processed by this method, which makes it low relevant to other processes of plastic deformation. Nevertheless, it is an economically competitive method for the manufacture of light pressure vessels, consisting of a liner of aluminum alloy reinforced with fiber glass. The effects over the microstructure of an aluminum alloy AA 6061 during the spinning process are little known. Nevertheless, the changes can favor the microcracking of the alloy during the process of plastic deformation. In this work, the microstructural changes produced by the plastic deformation during the spinning process and the final heat treatment of an aluminum liner and the effects of the processing variables are studied

El proceso de repujado para la fabricación de tubos de aluminio ha sido muy poco estudiado, quizá debido al bajo tonelaje procesado por este método, lo que lo hace poco relevante frente a otros procesos de deformación plástica. Sin embargo, es un método económicamente competitivo para la fabricación de recipientes de presión livianos, consistentes en un liner de aleación de aluminio reforzado con fibra de vidrio. Los efectos producidos sobre la microestructura de una aleación de aluminio AA 6061 durante el proceso de repujado son poco conocidos. Sin embargo, los cambios pueden llevar a provocar o favorecer el agrietamiento (fisuración) de la aleación durante el proceso de deformación plástica. En este trabajo se estudian los cambios microestructurales producidos por la deformación plástica durante el repujado y el tratamiento térmicos final de un cilindro de aluminio y los efectos de las variables de procesamiento

The aluminum alloys spinning process is a very old process but very little studied, perhaps due to the low tonnage processed by this method, which makes it less relevant than other processes of plastic deformation. Nevertheless, it is an economically competitive method for the manufacture of light pressure vessels, consisting of a liner of aluminum alloy reinforced with fiber glass. This process presents the disadvantage of the formation of microcracks that serve as stress risers of tension and cause the fracture of the container during the cyclical load. This happens with crack sizes much smaller than the ones in the bibliography for the alloy AA6061. The formation and the characteristics of the microcracks were studied by analysing process variables such as heating temperature and plastic deformation velocity. The experiments showed that higher temperatures and smaller forming velocities reduced the formation of microcracks.

El repujado de aleaciones de aluminio es un proceso muy antiguo, pero muy poco estudiado, quizá debido al bajo tonelaje procesado por este método, lo que lo hace poco relevante frente a otros procesos de deformación plástica. Sin embargo, es un método económicamente competitivo para la fabricación de recipientes de presión livianos, consistentes en un liner de aleación de aluminio reforzado con fibra de vidrio. Este proceso presenta el inconveniente de la formación de microfisuras que sirven como concentradores de tensión y provocan la fractura del recipiente durante la carga cíclica. Se encontró que esto sucede aún con longitudes de grieta muy inferiores a las predichas en la bibliografía para la aleación AA6061. Se estudió la formación de las microfisuras y la influencia de dos variables de proceso, temperatura de calentamiento y velocidad de deformación plástica, sobre las características de las mismas. Las experiencias muestran que temperaturas más altas y menores velocidades de conformación reducen la formación de microfisuras.

This paper deals with the possibility of reducing carbon content by heat treatment in reactive atmospheres in order to improve plastic deformations properties of steel sheets. The heat treatment involves a decarburation annealing after a cold rolling, as opposed to the traditional process that performs the heat treatment in non-reactive atmospheres. Some of the most relevant variables were studied. For this, commercial hot rolling steel sheets were cold rolled with different grades of cold reduction (60%, 70% and 80%). The recrystallization temperature and the decarburation kinetics were determined by heat treatments performed at temperatures varying between 600 and 700ºC, for variable lengths of time up to 2 hours. The grain size evolution was monitored by metallography. In order to analyse the plastic properties of the treated sheets, the n and r coefficients were obtained by tension tests and the sheet texture was determined by X-ray diffraction.