Superelastic response and damping behavior of additively manufactured Nitinol architectured materials

In energy absorption applications, architectured metallic materials generally suffer from unrecoverable deformation as a result of local yield damage or inelastic buckling. Nitinol (NiTi) offers recoverable deformation and energy dissipation due to its unique superelasticity, which can change the way we design and additively manufacture...

Characterization of robotized CMT-WAAM carbon steel

This paper analyses the microstructural and mechanical properties of carbon steel coupons produced by CMT-WAAM. The strategy adopted in the fabrication of the test specimens using a robotised facility is explained. Then, the results of the mechanical characterization performed using as-built and machined samples, extracted in several...

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

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...

Additive manufacturing of Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb alloy using gas atomized and mechanically alloyed plasma spheroidized powders

In this paper, laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) with a high-temperature inductive platform preheating was used to fabricate intermetallic TiAl-alloy samples. The gas atomized (GA) and mechanically alloyed plasma spheroidized (MAPS) powders of the Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb (at. %) alloy were used as the feedstock material. The...