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Application of Atom Probe Tomography to Complex Microstructures of Laser Additively Manufactured Samples
摘要: Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies have gained increasing interest across multiple industrial sectors ranging from biomedical to aerospace. AM is not only used for prototyping, but also for tooling as well as for final part production. The computer-controlled, layer-by-layer building up process allows for increased design freedom enabling to produce almost any shape. Additional benefits are potential resource efficiency, increased product customization and lightweight design. Two prominent metal-based laser AM (LAM) techniques are laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and laser metal deposition (LMD). In LPBF, a focused laser beam is scanned over a bed filled with metal powder to locally melt and fuse the powder to produce fully dense metal parts. The next layer of powder is then distributed and the laser scans again. LMD is a nozzle-based AM process in which a focused laser beam creates a melt pool in the build’s surface. Metallic powder is then injected into the melt pool through a nozzle. The 3D part is built by moving the nozzle/laser assembly forward track by track and layer by layer. Material produced by LAM exhibits a unique thermal history: initially, the material is cooled rapidly from the liquid state in the meltpool. Subsequently, the material experiences a cyclic reheating, the so-called intrinsic heat treatment (IHT), as neighboring tracks and further layers are deposited during the LAM process. Consequences of this thermal history are very complex, sometimes hierarchical microstructures with inhomogeneities at scales ranging from nanometers up millimeters. Fully understanding and characterizing these microstructures is challenging and requires the combination of methods spanning a similar range: from light optical microscopy (LOM) to electron microscopy to atom probe tomography (APT). Here we present examples how APT can deliver valuable information on complex microstructures to better understand the IHT, rapid solidification as well as phase separation in different metallic alloys. Here I will discuss examples in steel, Al- and Ni-based superalloys, and high entropy alloys (HEA).
关键词: Laser Additive Manufacturing,Additive Manufacturing,Phase Separation,Microstructures,Atom Probe Tomography,Rapid Solidification,Intrinsic Heat Treatment
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Additive manufacturing of tool steel by laser metal deposition
摘要: In this work, different geometries were additively manufactured applying laser metal deposition using powder out of hot-working tool steel 1.2344. It was shown that this hot working tool steel can be used to manufacture crack free parts through laser metal deposition. Temperatures were locally measured in experimental investigations. Additional microstructure analysis of different geometries indicated a dendritic solidification structure and grain boundary carbides. Vickers hardness varied between 400 HV 1 and 750 HV 1.
关键词: intrinsic heat treatment,1.2344,additive manufacturing,laser metal deposition,hot work tool steel,dilatometer specimen
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22