Microstructure and mechanical properties of tial-based alloy produced by selective laser melting

Polozov, Igor; Kantyukov, Artem; Popovich, V.; Zhu, Jia Ning; Popovich, Anatoly

doi:10.37904/metal.2020.3604

Microstructure and mechanical properties of tial-based alloy produced by selective laser melting

Title

Microstructure and mechanical properties of tial-based alloy produced by selective laser melting

Author

Polozov, Igor (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
Kantyukov, Artem (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
Popovich, V. (TU Delft (OLD) MSE-5)
Zhu, Jia Ning (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
Popovich, Anatoly (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)

Date

2020

Abstract

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an attractive way of producing parts of intermetallic titanium alloys. However, high brittleness of these alloys makes it challenging to produce crack-free intermetallic parts by AM. One way to overcome this problem is to use high-temperature powder-bed preheating. In this paper, Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb alloy was obtained by selective laser melting process with high-temperature preheating of 800-900 ºC. Crack-free specimens with a relative density of 99.9% were fabricated using an optimized process parameter set. Microstructure and phase composition were studied using scanning electron microscopy and X-Ray diffraction to reveal a fine microstructure consisting of lamellar a2/? colonies, equiaxed ? grains, and retained ß phase. Compressive tests and microhardness measurements showed that the produced alloy exhibited superior properties compared to the conventionally obtained TiAl-alloy.

Subject

Additive manufacturing
Intermetallics
Selective laser melting
Titanium aluminide

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.37904/metal.2020.3604

Publisher

TANGER Ltd.

ISBN

978-80-87294-97-0

Source

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials (METAL 2020)