Grain refinement in additively manufactured ferritic stainless steel by in situ inoculation using pre-alloyed powder
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021

For ferritic stainless steels, TiN has effectively been used as an inoculant to produce equiaxed grain structures in casting and welding. However, it is not established whether TiN would be an effective inoculant in additive manufacturing. In this study, the effectiveness of TiN as an inoculant in a ferritic stainless steel processed by laser powder-bed fusion is studied. An alloy without Ti is fabricated and compared to an alloy designed to form a high amount of TiN early during solidification. The work shows that the presence of TiN provides general grain refinement and that TiN-covered oxide particles are effective in enabling columnar-to-equiaxed transition in certain regions of the meltpool. The applied approach of pre-alloying powders with inoculant-forming elements offers a straightforward route to achieving fine, equiaxed grain structures in additively manufactured metallic materials. It also shows how oxygen present during the process can be utilized to nucleate effective inoculating phases.

Solidification

Inoculation

Columnar-to-equiaxed transition

Laser Powder-Bed Fusion

Ferritic stainless steels

Författare

A. Durga

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

N. Pettersson

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Sri Bala Aditya Malladi

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning

Zhuoer Chen

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning

Sheng Guo

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning

Lars Nyborg

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Material och tillverkning

Greta Lindwall

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Scripta Materialia

1359-6462 (ISSN)

Vol. 194 113690

Ämneskategorier

Bearbetnings-, yt- och fogningsteknik

Materialkemi

Metallurgi och metalliska material

DOI

10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.113690

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