Scan strategies in EBM-printed IN718 and the physics of bulk 3D microstructure development
Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) characterization provides opportunities for understanding processing-structure relationships in additively manufactured (AM) materials. Bulk samples of Inconel 718 were fabricated via electron beam melting (EBM) in order to study microstructural development as a function of energy input and beam scan strategy. TriBeam tomography of bulk Inconel 718 microstructures built under steady-state growth conditions reveals the sensitivity of microstructure formation and evolution to machine process parameters. Here, samples manufactured using a narrow range of energy input per unit build area result in varied grain morphologies and crystallographic textures. Using TRUCHAS, a thermal simulation software, the thermal history of bulk scan strategies was predicted, and combined with a calibrated microstructure-processing map to accurately predict bulk grain morphologies. The solidification parameters and the 3D measured nucleation density are used to predict the transition between columnar and equiaxed grain morphologies, providing a process map to guide AM parameter choices to locally control as-printed microstructure. A two-dimensional metric for characterizing bulk grain morphology was also found to agree well with predictions from the process map calibrated by 3D data. Combined with 3D tomography and thermal modelling, the physics of structure development were understood at a new level of detail with respect to the competingmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1877127
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2022-8163J
Journal ID: ISSN 1044-5803; 707502
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0003525; AC05-00OR22725; 4000156470; DMR 1720256
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Materials Characterization
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 190; Journal ID: ISSN 1044-5803
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; additive manufacturing; tomography; solidification; microstructure; tribeam
Citation Formats
Polonsky, Andrew T., Raghavan, Narendran R. Srinivasa, Echlin, McLean P., Kirka, Michael M., Dehoff, Ryan R., and Pollock, Tresa M. Scan strategies in EBM-printed IN718 and the physics of bulk 3D microstructure development. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112043.
Polonsky, Andrew T., Raghavan, Narendran R. Srinivasa, Echlin, McLean P., Kirka, Michael M., Dehoff, Ryan R., & Pollock, Tresa M. Scan strategies in EBM-printed IN718 and the physics of bulk 3D microstructure development. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112043
Polonsky, Andrew T., Raghavan, Narendran R. Srinivasa, Echlin, McLean P., Kirka, Michael M., Dehoff, Ryan R., and Pollock, Tresa M. Sat .
"Scan strategies in EBM-printed IN718 and the physics of bulk 3D microstructure development". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112043. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1877127.
@article{osti_1877127,
title = {Scan strategies in EBM-printed IN718 and the physics of bulk 3D microstructure development},
author = {Polonsky, Andrew T. and Raghavan, Narendran R. Srinivasa and Echlin, McLean P. and Kirka, Michael M. and Dehoff, Ryan R. and Pollock, Tresa M.},
abstractNote = {Three-dimensional (3D) characterization provides opportunities for understanding processing-structure relationships in additively manufactured (AM) materials. Bulk samples of Inconel 718 were fabricated via electron beam melting (EBM) in order to study microstructural development as a function of energy input and beam scan strategy. TriBeam tomography of bulk Inconel 718 microstructures built under steady-state growth conditions reveals the sensitivity of microstructure formation and evolution to machine process parameters. Here, samples manufactured using a narrow range of energy input per unit build area result in varied grain morphologies and crystallographic textures. Using TRUCHAS, a thermal simulation software, the thermal history of bulk scan strategies was predicted, and combined with a calibrated microstructure-processing map to accurately predict bulk grain morphologies. The solidification parameters and the 3D measured nucleation density are used to predict the transition between columnar and equiaxed grain morphologies, providing a process map to guide AM parameter choices to locally control as-printed microstructure. A two-dimensional metric for characterizing bulk grain morphology was also found to agree well with predictions from the process map calibrated by 3D data. Combined with 3D tomography and thermal modelling, the physics of structure development were understood at a new level of detail with respect to the competing processes of grain nucleation and epitaxial growth.},
doi = {10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112043},
journal = {Materials Characterization},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
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