Effect of remelting processes on the microstructure and mechanical behaviours of 18Ni-300 maraging steel manufactured by selective laser melting

Song, Jun, Tang, Qian, Feng, Qixiang, Han, Quanquan, Ma, Shuai, Chen, Hao, Guo, Fuyu and Setchi, Rossitza ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7207-6544 2022. Effect of remelting processes on the microstructure and mechanical behaviours of 18Ni-300 maraging steel manufactured by selective laser melting. Materials Characterization 184 , 111648. 10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111648

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Abstract

Selective laser melting (SLM) is an established metal additive manufacturing technology extensively used in the automotive domain to manufacture metallic components with complex structures from 18Ni-300 maraging steel. However, achieving high-performance 18Ni-300 maraging steel using SLM still presents a challenge in terms of formulation of the processing parameters. The remelting process has the potential to address this challenge during SLM before post-treatments. This paper systematically investigated the effect of remelting on the microstructure and mechanical behaviours of the SLM-built 18Ni-300 maraging steel. The experimental results suggest that increases in the relative density of the as-built samples from 99.12% to 99.93% are achieved by a specific combination of remelting parameters (laser power 200 W, scan speed 750 mm/s, remelting rotation 90° and hatch spacing 0.11 mm) that eliminate large-sized pores. Compared with the as-built condition, remelting can slightly coarsen the average grain sizes and increased the fraction of low-angle grain boundaries (2°–15°). The tensile strength showed no remelting dependence, whereas both the ductility and microhardness increased. Elongation of the as-built sample increased from 10.5 ± 0.8% to 13 ± 3.5% after remelting under the #28 condition. These findings provide a fundamentally new understanding of how a combination of SLM and remelting can aid in the manufacture of high-performing 18Ni-300 maraging steel.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1044-5803
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 December 2021
Date of Acceptance:	28 November 2021
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 02:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/146059

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