Microstructure and mechanical properties of tial-based alloy produced by selective laser melting
Igor Polozov (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
Artem Kantyukov (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
V. Vera (TU Delft - (OLD) MSE-5)
Jia Ning Zhu (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
A. A. Popovich (St. Petersburg Polytechnic University)
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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.