Controlling microstructure in deposits fabricated using powder blown direct energy deposition technique
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The overall goal of this collaboration is to develop technologies to control grain morphology and microstructures of Inconel 718 components additively manufactured through the Direct Energy Deposition (DED) process (Identical to the LENS (laser engineered net shaping) processes) and to achieve equiaxed or near equiaxed grain structures. The phase1 technical collaboration was used to fabricate Inconel 718 builds with different process parameters, pre heat and scan strategies. The results were then rationalized using computational heat transfer and solidification models. Microstructural characterization showed that the aspect ratio of the grains can be reduced to less than 1.5, and that control of the grain sizes to within 50-100 μm could be potentially obtained by using an external source to preheat the substrate to 400 ̊C. Heat transfer models coupled with solidification models were used to rationalize the results which show that preheating lowered the temperature gradient thereby resulting in moving towards the equiaxed region of the columnar to equiaxed transition (CET) curve. The results demonstrate that higher preheat temperatures could be potentially used to obtain a truly equiaxed structure.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1459282
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2018/866; CRADA/NFE-17-06745
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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