Achieving high strength and ductility in traditionally brittle soft magnetic intermetallics via additive manufacturing
Abstract
Intermetallic alloys possess exceptional soft magnetic properties, including high permeability, low coercivity, and high saturation induction, but exhibit poor mechanical properties that make them impractical to bulk process and use at ideal compositions. We used laser-based Additive Manufacturing to process traditionally brittle Fe–Co and Fe–Si alloys in bulk form without macroscopic defects and at near-ideal compositions for electromagnetic applications. The binary Fe–50Co, as a model material, demonstrated simultaneous high strength (600–700 MPa) and high ductility (35%) in tension, corresponding to a ~300% increase in strength and an order-of-magnitude improvement in ductility relative to conventionally processed material. Atomic-scale toughening and strengthening mechanisms, based on engineered multiscale microstructures, are proposed to explain the unusual combination of mechanical properties. Here, this work presents an instance in which metal Additive Manufacturing processes are enabling, rather than limiting, the development of higher-performance alloys.
- Authors:
-
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1570253
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1694070
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2019-10411J
Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454; 679062; TRN: US2001069
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA-0003525
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Acta Materialia
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 180; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Intermetallic alloys; Soft magnetic alloys; Additive manufacturing; Multiscale microstructures; Ductile fracture
Citation Formats
Babuska, Tomas F., Wilson, Mark A., Johnson, Kyle L., Whetten, Shaun R., Curry, John F., Rodelas, Jeffrey M., Atkinson, Cooper, Lu, Ping, Chandross, Michael, Krick, Brandon A., Michael, Joseph R., Argibay, Nicolas, Susan, Donald F., and Kustas, Andrew B. Achieving high strength and ductility in traditionally brittle soft magnetic intermetallics via additive manufacturing. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2019.08.044.
Babuska, Tomas F., Wilson, Mark A., Johnson, Kyle L., Whetten, Shaun R., Curry, John F., Rodelas, Jeffrey M., Atkinson, Cooper, Lu, Ping, Chandross, Michael, Krick, Brandon A., Michael, Joseph R., Argibay, Nicolas, Susan, Donald F., & Kustas, Andrew B. Achieving high strength and ductility in traditionally brittle soft magnetic intermetallics via additive manufacturing. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.08.044
Babuska, Tomas F., Wilson, Mark A., Johnson, Kyle L., Whetten, Shaun R., Curry, John F., Rodelas, Jeffrey M., Atkinson, Cooper, Lu, Ping, Chandross, Michael, Krick, Brandon A., Michael, Joseph R., Argibay, Nicolas, Susan, Donald F., and Kustas, Andrew B. Wed .
"Achieving high strength and ductility in traditionally brittle soft magnetic intermetallics via additive manufacturing". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.08.044. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1570253.
@article{osti_1570253,
title = {Achieving high strength and ductility in traditionally brittle soft magnetic intermetallics via additive manufacturing},
author = {Babuska, Tomas F. and Wilson, Mark A. and Johnson, Kyle L. and Whetten, Shaun R. and Curry, John F. and Rodelas, Jeffrey M. and Atkinson, Cooper and Lu, Ping and Chandross, Michael and Krick, Brandon A. and Michael, Joseph R. and Argibay, Nicolas and Susan, Donald F. and Kustas, Andrew B.},
abstractNote = {Intermetallic alloys possess exceptional soft magnetic properties, including high permeability, low coercivity, and high saturation induction, but exhibit poor mechanical properties that make them impractical to bulk process and use at ideal compositions. We used laser-based Additive Manufacturing to process traditionally brittle Fe–Co and Fe–Si alloys in bulk form without macroscopic defects and at near-ideal compositions for electromagnetic applications. The binary Fe–50Co, as a model material, demonstrated simultaneous high strength (600–700 MPa) and high ductility (35%) in tension, corresponding to a ~300% increase in strength and an order-of-magnitude improvement in ductility relative to conventionally processed material. Atomic-scale toughening and strengthening mechanisms, based on engineered multiscale microstructures, are proposed to explain the unusual combination of mechanical properties. Here, this work presents an instance in which metal Additive Manufacturing processes are enabling, rather than limiting, the development of higher-performance alloys.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2019.08.044},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = C,
volume = 180,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Near equiatomic FeCo alloys: Constitution, mechanical and magnetic properties
journal, September 2005
- Sourmail, T.
- Progress in Materials Science, Vol. 50, Issue 7
A review of the mechanical properties of B2 compounds
journal, February 1995
- Baker, I.
- Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 192-193
Plastic deformation in Fe-Si alloys
journal, April 1974
- Lakso, Gordon E.; Marcinkowski, M. J.
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, Vol. 5, Issue 4
The Disorder → Order Transformation in Iron–Cobalt-Based Alloys
journal, January 1973
- Clegg, D. W.; Buckley, R. A.
- Metal Science Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 1
Ordering transformations in Fe-50Co based alloys
journal, January 1981
- Rajkovic, M.; Buckley, R. A.
- Metal Science, Vol. 15, Issue 1
Effect of additive elements on cold workability in FeCo alloys
journal, June 1983
- Kawahara, Kohji
- Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 18, Issue 6
Effects of rare earth elements doping on ordered structures and ductility improvement of Fe–6.5wt%Si alloy
journal, December 2016
- Yu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhihao; Xie, Jianxin
- Materials Letters, Vol. 184
Effects of order–disorder reactions on rapidly quenched Fe–6.5%Si alloy
journal, February 2014
- Lima, Claudio Cassio; da Silva, Mário Cezar Alves; Sobral, Maria Dorotéia Costa
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 586
Structure and magnetic properties study of iron-based thermally sprayed alloys
journal, April 2004
- Fenineche, N. E.; Cherigui, M.; Aourag, H.
- Materials Letters, Vol. 58, Issue 11
Magnetic properties and ordering in C-coated FexCo1−x alloy nanocrystals
journal, June 1998
- Turgut, Z.; Scott, J. H.; Huang, M. Q.
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 11
Deformation twinning feature and its effects on significant enhancement of tensile ductility in columnar-grained Fe–6.5wt.%Si alloy at intermediate temperatures
journal, April 2012
- Xie, Jianxin; Fu, Huadong; Zhang, Zhihao
- Intermetallics, Vol. 23
Magnetic properties of RF diode sputtered Co/sub x/Fe/sub 100-x/ alloy thin films
journal, January 1996
- Yun, E. J.; Win, W.; Walser, R. M.
- IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 32, Issue 5
Correlation of coercivity and microstructure of thin CoFe films
journal, August 2000
- Platt, C. L.; Berkowitz, A. E.; Smith, David J.
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 88, Issue 4
Fabrication and magnetic properties of Fe–6.5% Si alloys by magnetron sputtering method
journal, July 2010
- Tian, Guangke; Bi, Xiaofang
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 502, Issue 1
Magnetic properties of amorphous Fe‐Si thin films
journal, September 1976
- Shimada, Yutaka; Kojima, Hiroshi
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 47, Issue 9
Magnetic properties of high silicon iron sheet fabricated by direct powder rolling
journal, October 2004
- Li, Ran; Shen, Qiang; Zhang, Lianmeng
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 281, Issue 2-3
Commercial scale production of Fe‐6.5 wt. % Si sheet and its magnetic properties
journal, November 1988
- Takada, Y.; Abe, M.; Masuda, S.
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 64, Issue 10
Mechanism of mechanical alloying phase formation and related magnetic and mechanical properties in the FeSi system
journal, August 1993
- Abdellaoui, M.; Barradi, T.; Gaffet, E.
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 198, Issue 1-2
Formation and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline mechanically alloyed Fe‐Co and Fe‐Ni
journal, May 1993
- Kuhrt, C.; Schultz, L.
- Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 73, Issue 10
Studies of magnetic properties of permalloy (Fe–30%Ni) prepared by SLM technology
journal, February 2012
- Zhang, Baicheng; Fenineche, Nour-Eddine; Zhu, Lin
- Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 324, Issue 4
Laser metal deposition and selective laser melting of Fe–28 at.% Al
journal, July 2014
- Rolink, Gesa; Vogt, Sabrina; Senčekova, Lucia
- Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 29, Issue 17
Properties of soft magnetic Fe-Co-V alloy produced by laser powder bed fusion
journal, May 2019
- Riipinen, Tuomas; Metsä-Kortelainen, Sini; Lindroos, Tomi
- Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 4
Metallurgy of high-silicon steel parts produced using Selective Laser Melting
journal, May 2016
- Garibaldi, Michele; Ashcroft, Ian; Simonelli, Marco
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 110
Effect of annealing on the microstructure and magnetic properties of soft magnetic Fe-Si produced via laser additive manufacturing
journal, January 2018
- Garibaldi, M.; Ashcroft, I.; Lemke, J. N.
- Scripta Materialia, Vol. 142
Laser Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials
journal, January 2017
- Mikler, C. V.; Chaudhary, V.; Borkar, T.
- JOM, Vol. 69, Issue 3
Tuning the phase stability and magnetic properties of laser additively processed Fe-30at%Ni soft magnetic alloys
journal, July 2017
- Mikler, C. V.; Chaudhary, V.; Soni, V.
- Materials Letters, Vol. 199
Laser additive processing of Ni-Fe-V and Ni-Fe-Mo Permalloys: Microstructure and magnetic properties
journal, April 2017
- Mikler, C. V.; Chaudhary, V.; Borkar, T.
- Materials Letters, Vol. 192
Bulk Combinatorial Synthesis and High Throughput Characterization for Rapid Assessment of Magnetic Materials: Application of Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS™)
journal, April 2016
- Geng, J.; Nlebedim, I. C.; Besser, M. F.
- JOM, Vol. 68, Issue 7
Fe-Al thin walls manufactured by Laser Engineered Net Shaping
journal, March 2017
- Karczewski, Krzysztof; Pęska, Magda; Ziętala, Michał
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 696
Misfit-energy-increasing dislocations in vapor-deposited CoFe/NiFe multilayers
journal, April 2004
- Zhou, X. W.; Johnson, R. A.; Wadley, H. N. G.
- Physical Review B, Vol. 69, Issue 14
Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics
journal, March 1995
- Plimpton, Steve
- Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 117, Issue 1
Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO–the Open Visualization Tool
journal, December 2009
- Stukowski, Alexander
- Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 18, Issue 1
Enhancing workability in sheet production of high silicon content electrical steel through large shear deformation
journal, July 2018
- Kustas, Andrew B.; Johnson, David R.; Trumble, Kevin P.
- Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 257
Texture Development in High-Silicon Iron Sheet Produced by Simple Shear Deformation
journal, March 2016
- Kustas, Andrew B.; Sagapuram, Dinakar; Trumble, Kevin P.
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 47, Issue 6
The plastic deformation of ordered FeCo and Fe3 Al alloys
journal, May 1964
- Stoloff, N. S.; Davies, R. G.
- Acta Metallurgica, Vol. 12, Issue 5
Relationship between flow stress and atomic order in the FeCo alloy
journal, November 1964
- Marcinkowski, M. J.; Chessin, Henry
- Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 10, Issue 107
Geometric flow control of shear bands by suppression of viscous sliding
journal, August 2016
- Sagapuram, Dinakar; Viswanathan, Koushik; Mahato, Anirban
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 472, Issue 2192
Deformation twinning in an Fe-6.5wt.% Si alloy with columnar grains during intermediate temperature compression
journal, March 2012
- Xie, Jianxin; Fu, Huadong; Zhang, Zhihao
- Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 538
Tensile properties of strip casting 6.5wt% Si steel at elevated temperatures
journal, July 2015
- Li, Hao-Ze; Liu, Zhen-Yu
- Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 639
Hot drawn Fe–6.5wt.%Si wires with good ductility
journal, August 2014
- Yang, W.; Li, H.; Yang, K.
- Materials Science and Engineering: B, Vol. 186
Simulation and experimental comparison of the thermo-mechanical history and 3D microstructure evolution of 304L stainless steel tubes manufactured using LENS
journal, December 2017
- Johnson, Kyle L.; Rodgers, Theron M.; Underwood, Olivia D.
- Computational Mechanics, Vol. 61, Issue 5
An Experimental Investigation into Additive Manufacturing-Induced Residual Stresses in 316L Stainless Steel
journal, September 2014
- Wu, Amanda S.; Brown, Donald W.; Kumar, Mukul
- Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 45, Issue 13
The metallurgy and processing science of metal additive manufacturing
journal, March 2016
- Sames, W. J.; List, F. A.; Pannala, S.
- International Materials Reviews, Vol. 61, Issue 5
Predicting Texture Evolution in Ta and Ta-10W Alloys Using Polycrystal Plasticity
journal, August 2015
- Knezevic, Marko; Zecevic, Miroslav; Beyerlein, Irene J.
- JOM, Vol. 67, Issue 11
The effect of grain size and Fe:Co ratio on the room temperature yielding of FeCo
journal, June 1994
- Zhao, Lie; Baker, I.
- Acta Metallurgica et Materialia, Vol. 42, Issue 6
Mechanical properties of soft magnetic FeCo alloys
journal, June 2002
- George, E. P.; Gubbi, A. N.; Baker, I.
- Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 329-331
The conflicts between strength and toughness
journal, October 2011
- Ritchie, Robert O.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 10, Issue 11
Additive manufacturing of metals
journal, September 2016
- Herzog, Dirk; Seyda, Vanessa; Wycisk, Eric
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 117
Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review
journal, April 2014
- Frazier, William E.
- Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 23, Issue 6
Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM
journal, October 2017
- Lemke, J. N.; Simonelli, M.; Garibaldi, M.
- Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 722
Solidification velocity of undercooled Fe–Co alloys
journal, January 2017
- Rodriguez, Justin E.; Kreischer, Carolina; Volkmann, Thomas
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 122
Additively manufactured hierarchical stainless steels with high strength and ductility
journal, October 2017
- Wang, Y. Morris; Voisin, Thomas; McKeown, Joseph T.
- Nature Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 1
Microstructure stabilization in a rapidly solidified
journal, September 1992
- Flinn, John E.; Bae, Jung Chan; Kelly, Thomas F.
- Metallurgical Transactions A, Vol. 23, Issue 9
Equal channel angular extrusion for bulk processing of Fe–Co–2V soft magnetic alloys, part I: Processing and mechanical properties
journal, May 2018
- Susan, Don F.; Jozaghi, Taymaz; Karaman, Ibrahim
- Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 33, Issue 15
Temperature dependent mechanical properties of ultra-fine grained FeCo–2V
journal, August 2003
- Duckham, A.; Zhang, D. Z.; Liang, D.
- Acta Materialia, Vol. 51, Issue 14
Works referencing / citing this record:
Competition between densification and microstructure of functionalmaterials by Selective Laser Melting
journal, February 2020
- Singh, Neera; Ummethala, Raghunandan; Hameed, Pearlin
- Material Design & Processing Communications, Vol. 2, Issue 3