Development of carbonaceous tin-based solder composite achieving unprecedented joint performance
Hawi, Sara and Gharavian, Somayeh and Burda, Marek and Goel, Saurav and Lotfian, Saeid and Khaleque, Tasnuva and Nezhad, Hamed Yazdani (2021) Development of carbonaceous tin-based solder composite achieving unprecedented joint performance. Emergent Materials, 4 (6). pp. 1679-1696. ISSN 2522-574X (https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-021-00337-9)
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Abstract
Weight reduction and improved strength are two common engineering goals in the joining sector to benefit transport, aerospace, and nuclear industries amongst others. Here, in this paper, we show that the suitable addition of carbon nanomaterials to a tin-based solder material matrix (C-Solder® supplied by Cametics Ltd.) results in two-fold strength of soldered composite joints. Single-lap shear joint experiments were conducted on soldered aluminium alloy (6082 T6) substrates. The soldering material was reinforced in different mix ratios by carbon black, graphene, and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and benchmarked against the pristine C-solder®. The material characterisation was performed using Vickers micro-indentation, differential scanning calorimetry and nano-indentation, whereas functional testing involved mechanical shear tests using single-lap aluminium soldered joints and creep tests. The hardness was observed to improve in all cases except for the 0.01 wt.% graphene reinforced solders, with 5% and 4% improvements in 0.05 carbon black and SWCNT reinforced solders, respectively. The maximum creep indentation was noted to improve for all solder categories with maximum 11% and 8% improvements in 0.05 wt.% carbon black and SWCNT reinforced ones. In general, the 0.05 wt.% nanomaterial reinforced solders promoted progressive cohesion failure in the joints as opposed to instantaneous fully de-bonded failure observed in pristine soldered joints, which suggests potential application in high-performance structures where no service load induced adhesion failure is permissible (e.g. aerospace assemblies). The novel innovation developed here will pave the way to achieving high-performance solder joining without carrying out extensive surface preparations.
ORCID iDs
Hawi, Sara, Gharavian, Somayeh, Burda, Marek, Goel, Saurav, Lotfian, Saeid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8542-933X, Khaleque, Tasnuva and Nezhad, Hamed Yazdani;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 79307 Dates: DateEvent30 December 2021Published30 December 2021Published Online9 December 2021Accepted20 August 2021SubmittedSubjects: Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery Department: Faculty of Engineering > Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 26 Jan 2022 15:23 Last modified: 23 Sep 2024 00:53 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/79307