Inoculation treatment of an additively manufactured 2024 aluminium alloy with titanium nanoparticles

被引:342
作者
Tan, Qiyang [1 ]
Zhang, Jingqi [1 ]
Sun, Qiang [1 ]
Fan, Zhiqi [1 ]
Li, Gan [1 ,2 ]
Yin, Yu [1 ]
Liu, Yingang [1 ]
Zhang, Ming-Xing [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Queensland, Sch Mech & Min Engn, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
[2] Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Mech & Energy Engn, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, Peoples R China
关键词
Selective laser melting; 2024 aluminium alloys; Grain refinement; EBSD; TEM; HIGH-ENTROPY ALLOY; CU-MG ALLOYS; GRAIN-REFINEMENT; MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; HEAT-TREATMENT; ALSI10MG ALLOY; ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIPS; INTERMETALLIC PHASES; ZR CONTENT; AL;
D O I
10.1016/j.actamat.2020.06.026
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Considerable studies on metal selective laser melting (SLM) have proved the necessity to refine microstructure parts fabricated by SLM in order to eliminate property anisotropy, hot-tearing and to increase the SLM-processability. In the present work, Ti nanoparticles, at the first time, were discovered to be an extremely effective inoculant for an SLMed 2024 aluminium alloy. 0.7 wt% addition of Ti nanoparticles was capable of substantially eliminating the hot-tearing cracks and columnar structure, and refining the grains in the SLMed 2024 alloy in a broad processing window. The substantial grain refinement in the Ti-inoculated 2024 alloy was attributed to the in-situ formation of Al3Ti nanoparticles with a L1(2) ordered structure, which formed a coherent interface with Al matrix and therefore significantly promoted the heterogeneous nucleation of the alpha-Al during solidification of melt pools in the SLM process. After a conventional T6 heat treatment, this SLMed alloy exhibited a superior balance of strength and ductility (tensile strength was up to 432 +/- 20 MPa and elongation of 10 +/- 0.8%), which was comparable to its wrought counterpart. This work can be considered as a breakthrough in research of fabricating high-strength aluminium alloys using SLM. (C) 2020 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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