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Small Punch Testing of Powder Bed Direct Laser Deposits

Sean Davies, Robert Lancaster Orcid Logo, Spencer Jeffs, Gavin Baxter

Key Engineering Materials, Volume: 734, Pages: 94 - 103

Swansea University Author: Robert Lancaster Orcid Logo

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Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) technologies, such as Powder Bed Direct Laser Deposition (PB-DLD), have gained increasing popularity within the aerospace industry due to the advantages they hold over conventional processing routes. Among the advantages are the ability to produce more sophisticate...

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Published in: Key Engineering Materials
ISSN: 1013-9826
Published: 2017
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31865
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Abstract: Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) technologies, such as Powder Bed Direct Laser Deposition (PB-DLD), have gained increasing popularity within the aerospace industry due to the advantages they hold over conventional processing routes. Among the advantages are the ability to produce more sophisticated cross-sectional geometries, a decrease in production lead times and an improvement to the buy-to-fly ratio. However, build quality and microstructural characteristics have a dependency on the process variables such as build direction. In order to understand the influence of grain size and build orientation on tensile behaviour, the Small Punch Tensile (SPT) testing technique has been applied to variants of the nickel based superalloy C263, manufactured using the PB-DLD method. The test technique utilises miniaturised samples, requiring only small volumes of material and is therefore a desirable test method to employ. SPT testing has characterised the mechanical properties between vertically and horizontally built PB-DLD C263 in comparison with the cast material derivative. Differences in mechanical performance between each variant have been revealed and found to be associated with microstructural variations. The deformation behaviour across each material variant have been exposed by interrupted tests. SPT results have also been accompanied by fractography, fracture energy calculations along with comparisons with uniaxial data.
Keywords: C263, Powder Bed Direct Laser Deposition, Small Punch, Tensile
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Start Page: 94
End Page: 103