International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Volume. 6, Issue 3, 32001(2024)

Recent innovations in laser additive manufacturing of titanium alloys

Jinlong Su1,2, Fulin Jiang1, Jie Teng1, Lequn Chen2, Ming Yan3, Guillermo Requena4,5, Lai-Chang Zhang6, Y Morris Wang7, Ilya V Okulov8,9, Hongmei Zhu10, and Chaolin Tan2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A?STAR), 5 Cleantech Loop, Singapore 636732, Singapore
  • 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen 518055, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Institute of Materials Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Linder H?he, 51147 Cologne,Germany
  • 5RWTH Aachen University, Metallic Structures and Materials Systems for Aerospace Engineering,D-52062 Aachen, Germany
  • 6Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive,Joondalup, Perth, Western Australia 6027, Australia
  • 7Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 900095,United States of America
  • 8Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering—IWT, Badgasteiner Str. 3, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 9Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Badgasteiner Str. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
  • 10Key Laboratory of Hunan Province of Equipment Safety Service Technology under Extreme Environment, University of South China, Hengyang, People’s Republic of China
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    Titanium (Ti) alloys are widely used in high-tech fields like aerospace and biomedical engineering. Laser additive manufacturing (LAM), as an innovative technology, is the key driver for the development of Ti alloys. Despite the significant advancements in LAM of Ti alloys,there remain challenges that need further research and development efforts. To recap the potential of LAM high-performance Ti alloy, this article systematically reviews LAM Ti alloys with up-to-date information on process, materials, and properties. Several feasible solutions to advance LAM Ti alloys are reviewed, including intelligent process parameters optimization,LAM process innovation with auxiliary fields and novel Ti alloys customization for LAM. The auxiliary energy fields (e.g. thermal, acoustic, mechanical deformation and magnetic fields) can affect the melt pool dynamics and solidification behaviour during LAM of Ti alloys, altering microstructures and mechanical performances. Different kinds of novel Ti alloys customized for LAM, like peritectic α-Ti, eutectoid (α + β)-Ti, hybrid (α + β)-Ti, isomorphous β-Ti and eutectic β-Ti alloys are reviewed in detail. Furthermore, machine learning in accelerating the LAM process optimization and new materials development is also outlooked. This review summarizes the material properties and performance envelops and benchmarks the research achievements in LAM of Ti alloys. In addition, the perspectives and further trends in LAM of Ti alloys are also highlighted.

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    Jinlong Su, Fulin Jiang, Jie Teng, Lequn Chen, Ming Yan, Guillermo Requena, Lai-Chang Zhang, Y Morris Wang, Ilya V Okulov, Hongmei Zhu, Chaolin Tan. Recent innovations in laser additive manufacturing of titanium alloys[J]. International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2024, 6(3): 32001

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 15, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 11, 2024

    The Author Email: Tan Chaolin (fulin.jiang.88@hnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1088/2631-7990/ad2545

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