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Title: Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders

Abstract

Laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing presents ample opportunities to produce net-shape parts. The complex laser-powder interactions result in high cooling rates that often lead to unique microstructures and excellent mechanical properties. Refractory high-entropy alloys show great potential for high-temperature applications but are notoriously difficult to process by additive processes due to their sensitivity to cracking and defects, such as un-melted powders and keyholes. Here, we present a method based on a normalized model-based processing diagram to achieve a nearly defect-free TiZrNbTa alloy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders during L-PBF. Compared to its as-cast counterpart, the as-printed TiZrNbTa exhibits comparable mechanical properties but with enhanced elastic isotropy. This method has good potential for other refractory alloy systems based on in-situ alloying of elemental powders, thereby creating new opportunities to rapidly expand the collection of processable refractory materials via L-PBF.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7]; ORCiD logo [7]; ORCiD logo [7]; ORCiD logo [7];  [5]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  2. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); NRCN, Beer-Sheva (Israel)
  5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  6. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  7. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  8. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL (United States); State Univ. of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Spallation Neutron Source (SNS); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO)
OSTI Identifier:
2317779
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; DMR-2238204; DMR-1945380; OAC-2404816; DMR-1611180; DMR-1809640; DMR-2226508; W911NF-13–1-0438; W911NF-19–2-0049
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Communications Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2662-4443
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Mooraj, Shahryar, Kim, George, Fan, Xuesong, Samuha, Shmuel, Xie, Yujun, Li, Tianyi, Tiley, Jaimie S., Chen, Yan, Yu, Dunji, An, Ke, Hosemann, Peter, Liaw, Peter K., Chen, Wei, and Chen, Wen. Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders. United States: N. p., 2024. Web. doi:10.1038/s43246-024-00452-0.
Mooraj, Shahryar, Kim, George, Fan, Xuesong, Samuha, Shmuel, Xie, Yujun, Li, Tianyi, Tiley, Jaimie S., Chen, Yan, Yu, Dunji, An, Ke, Hosemann, Peter, Liaw, Peter K., Chen, Wei, & Chen, Wen. Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00452-0
Mooraj, Shahryar, Kim, George, Fan, Xuesong, Samuha, Shmuel, Xie, Yujun, Li, Tianyi, Tiley, Jaimie S., Chen, Yan, Yu, Dunji, An, Ke, Hosemann, Peter, Liaw, Peter K., Chen, Wei, and Chen, Wen. Fri . "Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00452-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2317779.
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title = {Additive manufacturing of defect-free TiZrNbTa refractory high-entropy alloy with enhanced elastic isotropy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders},
author = {Mooraj, Shahryar and Kim, George and Fan, Xuesong and Samuha, Shmuel and Xie, Yujun and Li, Tianyi and Tiley, Jaimie S. and Chen, Yan and Yu, Dunji and An, Ke and Hosemann, Peter and Liaw, Peter K. and Chen, Wei and Chen, Wen},
abstractNote = {Laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing presents ample opportunities to produce net-shape parts. The complex laser-powder interactions result in high cooling rates that often lead to unique microstructures and excellent mechanical properties. Refractory high-entropy alloys show great potential for high-temperature applications but are notoriously difficult to process by additive processes due to their sensitivity to cracking and defects, such as un-melted powders and keyholes. Here, we present a method based on a normalized model-based processing diagram to achieve a nearly defect-free TiZrNbTa alloy via in-situ alloying of elemental powders during L-PBF. Compared to its as-cast counterpart, the as-printed TiZrNbTa exhibits comparable mechanical properties but with enhanced elastic isotropy. This method has good potential for other refractory alloy systems based on in-situ alloying of elemental powders, thereby creating new opportunities to rapidly expand the collection of processable refractory materials via L-PBF.},
doi = {10.1038/s43246-024-00452-0},
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year = {Fri Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2024},
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