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MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages 275-290Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2018.05.026
Keywords
Aluminium alloys; Selective laser melting; Elongation to fracture; Strengthening mechanism; Anisotropy
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- Science & Industry Endowment Fund [RP04-153]
- Australia Research Council [IH130100008]
- Safran Power Units
- Amaero Engineering
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A357 alloywas manufactured by selective lasermelting (SLM) and subjected to different heat treatments, by considering the stress relief step as critical, to establish the microstructure-mechanical property relationship and model the yield strength. For the as-SLM processed condition, the imposed fast cooling rate refines and limits the amount of Fe-rich intermetallic and eutectic Mg2Si phases, and enables a higher level of supersaturation of solutes. The latter leads to significant yield strength contributions from solid solution strengthening and natural ageing. The inter-cellular Si network within the columnar grains remains unchanged but small Si-rich particles appear within cells after direct ageing. The Si network breaks up during stress relieving, leading to high ductility. The lower ductility for the vertically-built samples under as-SLM processed, directly aged, and stress relieved conditions is duemainly to the finer Si networks brittle nature. Porosity resulting fromtrapped hydrogen gas enlarges significantly with solutionisation, deteriorating the ductility. Grain growth is not obviously observed with heat treatment. Si particles coarsen preferentially at grain boundaries initially, however, they distribute more evenly by coarsening within the grains as well during prolonged solutionisation. Anisotropy in both yield strength and ductility subsequently disappears when a more homogeneous microstructure is obtained. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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