DSC Analysis of LT-3 Aluminum Alloy Vacuum Brazing

LT-3 aluminum alloy is a kind of two-side cladding aluminum special used in vacuum brazing. Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) was used to measure the exothermic and endothermic reaction during the brazing process that the cortex metal and the base metal are melted and re-crystal. The analysis results inidicate that eutectic reaction is the main reaction in the melted cortex metal crystallization process. But the main reaction in the melted base metal crystallization process is the reaction that a-A1 segregated out. According to the experimental details, the critical work of nucleation is 3.82 × 1017J, the critical radius of nucleation is 8.69 × 1010 m, the volume of critical crystal nucleus is 2.75× 10-27 m3 and the per unit cell in critical crystal nucleus is 43.