Additive manufacturing of interstitial-strengthened high entropy alloy: Scanning strategy dependent anisotropic mechanical properties

Wei Zhang, Hui Wang, Bart Kooi, Yutao Pei*

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Abstract

A non-equiatomic interstitial-strengthened high entropy alloy (iHEA), Fe49.5Mn30Co10Cr10C0.5 (at.%), is manufactured by laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) with stripe and chessboard scanning strategies. The present study highlights the correlation between the laser scanning strategies with resulting microstructure, textures, and anisotropic mechanical properties in as-built iHEA. The results show that the LPBF processed iHEA exhibits an excellent strength-ductility synergy due to the combined deformation mechanisms of dislocation slip, martensite phase transformation- and nano twinning-induced plasticity. The samples printed by the stripe scanning strategy show more evident mechanical anisotropy than that of the chessboard-scanned samples. The difference in the degree of mechanical anisotropy is mainly attributed to the heterogeneous grain morphology and crystallographic texture resulted from different scanning strategies.
Original languageEnglish
Article number144978
Number of pages13
JournalMaterials science and engineering a-Structural materials properties microstructure and processing
Volume872
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8-May-2023

Keywords

  • Laser powder-bed fusion
  • High entropy alloy
  • Scanning strategy
  • Heterogeneous microstructure
  • Mechanical anisotropy

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