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Title: Grain boundary engineering for additive manufacturing

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a metal part using a laser or electron beam during a powder bed additive manufacturing process includes melting each of a number of layers of metal powder of the metal part with an effective amount of energy using the laser or electron beam to form the metal part such that at least one or more portions of the metal part have a critical amount of residual strain. The method also includes performing a heat treatment on the metal part that transforms the residual strain into substantially distributed coincidence site lattice (CSL) grain boundaries, low angle grain boundaries, or both in the metal part.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
General Electric Co., Niskayuna, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1650844
Patent Number(s):
10639719
Application Number:
15/279,182
Assignee:
General Electric Company (Niskayuna, NY)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B22 - CASTING B22F - WORKING METALLIC POWDER
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY B33Y - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING
DOE Contract Number:  
NE0008428
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 09/28/2016
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 42 ENGINEERING

Citation Formats

Lou, Xiaoyuan, Dolley, Evan Jarrett, and Morra, Martin Matthew. Grain boundary engineering for additive manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2020. Web.
Lou, Xiaoyuan, Dolley, Evan Jarrett, & Morra, Martin Matthew. Grain boundary engineering for additive manufacturing. United States.
Lou, Xiaoyuan, Dolley, Evan Jarrett, and Morra, Martin Matthew. Tue . "Grain boundary engineering for additive manufacturing". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1650844.
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