Arc additive manufacturing is a high-productivity and low-cost technology for directly fabricating fully dense metallic components.However,this technology with high deposit rate would cause degradation of dimensional ...Arc additive manufacturing is a high-productivity and low-cost technology for directly fabricating fully dense metallic components.However,this technology with high deposit rate would cause degradation of dimensional accuracy and surface quality of the metallic component.A novel hybrid additive manufacturing technology by combining the benefit of directed energy deposition and laser remelting is developed.This hybrid technology is successfully utilized to fabricate 316L component with excellent surface quality.Results show that laser remelting can largely increase the amount ofδphases and eliminateσphases in additive manufacturing 316L component surface due to the rapid cooling.This leads to the formation of remelting layer with higher microhardness and excellent corrosion resistance when compared to the steel made by directed energy deposition only.Increasing laser remelting power can improve surface quality as well as corrosion resistance,but degrade microhardness of remelting layer owing to the decrease inδphases.展开更多
Combined with the topology optimization,additive manufacturing can be used to fabricate metal parts with complex shapes.However,due to the geometrical variations and microstructure heterogeneities of the additively ma...Combined with the topology optimization,additive manufacturing can be used to fabricate metal parts with complex shapes.However,due to the geometrical variations and microstructure heterogeneities of the additively manufactured metal parts,new standards with the use of miniature specimens are required for the evalutation of the spatial distribution of mechanical properties throughout the parts.Here,we conduct a systematic investigation on tensile and fatigue properties of selective laser melted Inconel718 specimens with different thicknesses ranging from 0.1 mm to 1 mm.A“microstructure unit”that can well reflect the microstructure characteristic of selective laser melted materials is defined.The results reveal that premature necking with a dramatic drop in uniform elongation occurs if the ratio(t/d)of specimen thickness(t)to the"microstructure unit"size(d)is less than one.Premature necking is mainly attributed to the transition of strain localization behavior.We also propose a probabilistic statistical model for fatigue limit prediction based on the available fatigue data.It is recommended that the criterion of t/d≥4 should be satisfied to ensure that the yield strength,the uniform elongation,and the fatigue limit determined by the miniature specimens are comparable with those determined by standard specimens.The findings may provdie a guide to the establishment of miniature specimen-based standards toward the qualification of additively manufactured metal parts.展开更多
Dwell fatigue effect is a long-standing problem threatening the long-term service reliability for fan blades and fan disks of an aircraft engine.To understand the basic mechanism of dwell fatigue damage,pure fatigue a...Dwell fatigue effect is a long-standing problem threatening the long-term service reliability for fan blades and fan disks of an aircraft engine.To understand the basic mechanism of dwell fatigue damage,pure fatigue and 60 s dwell fatigue properties of bimodal Ti-6Al-4V alloys with different volume fractions of the primaryα(α_(p))phase were examined comparatively.The results showed that both pure fatigue and dwell fatigue life decreased with increasing the volume fraction of theα_(p)phase and the dwell fatigue life was lower than the pure fatigue one.The quasi-in-situ test results and the quantitative characterization of damage behaviors of the local microstructure units defined by theα_(p)-secondaryα(α_(s))combination reveal that theα_(s)phase close to theα_(p)phase with extensively slip activities was gradually damaged under dwell fatigue loading,while that under pure fatigue loading was undamaged,demonstrating that the dwell loading induced the damage of theα_(s)phase,and further reduced the fatigue life.A stress relaxation-based model is proposed to describe the physical mechanism on dwell fatigue damage of the bimodal Ti-6Al-4V alloy,i.e.the elastic deformation of theα_(s)phase caused by the strain incompatibility would be gradually transformed into plastic deformation during the dwell stage,and thus promotes fatigue damage.The model provides new insights into the microscopic process of stress/strain transfer between the soft and hard microstructure units under dwell fatigue loading.展开更多
基金This work was supported by Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Program(Grant No.Z181100003318001).
文摘Arc additive manufacturing is a high-productivity and low-cost technology for directly fabricating fully dense metallic components.However,this technology with high deposit rate would cause degradation of dimensional accuracy and surface quality of the metallic component.A novel hybrid additive manufacturing technology by combining the benefit of directed energy deposition and laser remelting is developed.This hybrid technology is successfully utilized to fabricate 316L component with excellent surface quality.Results show that laser remelting can largely increase the amount ofδphases and eliminateσphases in additive manufacturing 316L component surface due to the rapid cooling.This leads to the formation of remelting layer with higher microhardness and excellent corrosion resistance when compared to the steel made by directed energy deposition only.Increasing laser remelting power can improve surface quality as well as corrosion resistance,but degrade microhardness of remelting layer owing to the decrease inδphases.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant No.51771207)the project of‘Manufacturing the swirl nozzles of the high-pressure turbine by selective laser melting’the Fundamental Research Project of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science(No.L2019R18)。
文摘Combined with the topology optimization,additive manufacturing can be used to fabricate metal parts with complex shapes.However,due to the geometrical variations and microstructure heterogeneities of the additively manufactured metal parts,new standards with the use of miniature specimens are required for the evalutation of the spatial distribution of mechanical properties throughout the parts.Here,we conduct a systematic investigation on tensile and fatigue properties of selective laser melted Inconel718 specimens with different thicknesses ranging from 0.1 mm to 1 mm.A“microstructure unit”that can well reflect the microstructure characteristic of selective laser melted materials is defined.The results reveal that premature necking with a dramatic drop in uniform elongation occurs if the ratio(t/d)of specimen thickness(t)to the"microstructure unit"size(d)is less than one.Premature necking is mainly attributed to the transition of strain localization behavior.We also propose a probabilistic statistical model for fatigue limit prediction based on the available fatigue data.It is recommended that the criterion of t/d≥4 should be satisfied to ensure that the yield strength,the uniform elongation,and the fatigue limit determined by the miniature specimens are comparable with those determined by standard specimens.The findings may provdie a guide to the establishment of miniature specimen-based standards toward the qualification of additively manufactured metal parts.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51771207 and 52171128)the Fundamental Research Project of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science(No.L2019R18)。
文摘Dwell fatigue effect is a long-standing problem threatening the long-term service reliability for fan blades and fan disks of an aircraft engine.To understand the basic mechanism of dwell fatigue damage,pure fatigue and 60 s dwell fatigue properties of bimodal Ti-6Al-4V alloys with different volume fractions of the primaryα(α_(p))phase were examined comparatively.The results showed that both pure fatigue and dwell fatigue life decreased with increasing the volume fraction of theα_(p)phase and the dwell fatigue life was lower than the pure fatigue one.The quasi-in-situ test results and the quantitative characterization of damage behaviors of the local microstructure units defined by theα_(p)-secondaryα(α_(s))combination reveal that theα_(s)phase close to theα_(p)phase with extensively slip activities was gradually damaged under dwell fatigue loading,while that under pure fatigue loading was undamaged,demonstrating that the dwell loading induced the damage of theα_(s)phase,and further reduced the fatigue life.A stress relaxation-based model is proposed to describe the physical mechanism on dwell fatigue damage of the bimodal Ti-6Al-4V alloy,i.e.the elastic deformation of theα_(s)phase caused by the strain incompatibility would be gradually transformed into plastic deformation during the dwell stage,and thus promotes fatigue damage.The model provides new insights into the microscopic process of stress/strain transfer between the soft and hard microstructure units under dwell fatigue loading.
