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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
Volume 817, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2021.141266
Keywords
Laser powder bed fusion; Maraging steel; Aging; S; TEM; Strain hardening
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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Maraging steels exhibit high strength, toughness, and machinability, making them appealing to the tool and die industry. Additive manufacturing technologies like LPBF offer the potential for a new approach to designing maraging steel tools. This study focuses on optimizing the direct aging temperature for Ti-free Grade 300 maraging steel fabricated via LPBF and demonstrates that aging at 440 degrees Celsius for 6 hours results in the best strength-ductility combination.
Maraging steels are of interest to the tool and die industry owing to their high strength, toughness and machinability. Additive manufacturing technologies like laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) can result in a paradigm shift in the design of maraging steel tools. The lack of precipitates, in combination with solute segregation and non-equilibrium microstructure in Grade 300 maraging steel fabricated via LPBF makes the steel amenable to strengthening via direct aging post fabrication instead of the conventional solution treatment and aging. In this study we have focused on optimizing the direct aging temperature for a Ti-free Grade 300 maraging steel fabricated via LPBF for two different aging times. Through strain hardening analysis and detailed microstructural characterization, we show that direct aging at a temperature of 440 circle C for 6 h resulted in the best strengthductility combination. Aging samples at a lower temperature or shorter time resulted in no strain hardening prior to necking as a result of lower fraction of reverted austenite, whereas aging samples at a higher temperature resulted in extensive recrystallization of martensite, coarsening of precipitates, and extensive austenite reversion, resulting in softening of the fabricated parts.
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