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Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens
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: Received: 12 January 2024 / Approved: 15 January 2024 / Online: 15 January 2024 (16:33:27 CET)
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Schmidt, C. D.; El-Chaikh, A.; Danzig, A.; Christ, H.-J.; Von Hehl, A. Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens. Preprints2024, 2024011140. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1140.v1
Schmidt, C. D.; El-Chaikh, A.; Danzig, A.; Christ, H.-J.; Von Hehl, A. Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens. Preprints 2024, 2024011140. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1140.v1
Schmidt, C. D.; El-Chaikh, A.; Danzig, A.; Christ, H.-J.; Von Hehl, A. Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens. Preprints2024, 2024011140. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1140.v1
APA Style
Schmidt, C. D., El-Chaikh, A., Danzig, A., Christ, H. J., & Von Hehl, A. (2024). Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1140.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Schmidt, C. D., Hans-Jürgen Christ and Axel Von Hehl. 2024 "Feasibility of THT-Induced Microstructure Gradients and Their Effects on Fatigue Properties in Additively Manufactured Cylindrical and in Conventionally Manufactured Tube-Like Ti-6Al-4V Specimens" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.1140.v1
Abstract
Technical components should be produced sustainably and are subject to growing demands in terms of durability and reliability. To meet these expectations, the development of thermochemical processes is auspicious. Titanium alloys, which have a comparatively high gas solubility, allow temporary hydrogen (H) loading, often called thermo hydrogen treatment (THT). THT causes lattice deformation and reduces the β transformation temperature. These effects enable an adjustment of the microstructure, which improves the mechanical properties as compared to those produced conventionally. Furthermore, the process is applicable to complex geometries that cannot be surface hardened by mechanical surface treatment techniques. The investigation presented intends to realize a local microstructure gradient in additively via laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) manufactured cylindrical Ti–6Al–4V specimens by changing the distribution and morphology of strengthening precipitates as well as the β grain size depending on the distance to the surface, which should improve the material fatigue properties. To evaluate the mechanical properties of such THT-induced microstructure gradients, the resulting change in fatigue life in the LCF and HCF range was determined by stress-controlled cyclic deformation tests. Besides, the resulting microstructure was characterized by means of XRD and TEM. In addition to the additively manufactured and thermo hydrogen treated cylindrical specimens, conventionally produced tube-like specimens were thermo hydrogen treated and examined. For the THT-induced microstructure gradients, numerically simulated H concentration profiles as well as experimentally determined hardness profiles were used for the evaluation of the THT process. The study shows that H-loading at 500°C and H-degassing at 750°C, followed by aging at 550°C, allows the establishment of a microstructure gradient that shows an 8% improvement in fatigue properties compared to a reference condition without THT. The reason for this improvement is an increased volume fraction secondary alpha phase in the near-surface area of the specimens. Moreover, the results show that the process is applicable a tube-like specimen with varying wall thicknesses.
Keywords
Thermo hydrogen treatment; microstructure gradient; laser-powder bed fusion; fatigue properties
Subject
Engineering, Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering
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