Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 49, Issue 8, 0802001(2022)

Room- and High-Temperature Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys Fabricated Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

Shiwen Qi1... Peng Rong1, Dan Huang1, Yong Chen1, Rui Wang2,3, Donghua Dai2,3, and Dongdong Gu23,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610073, Sichuan, China
  • 2College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, China
  • 3Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Laser Additive Manufacturing of High-Performance Metallic Components, Nanjing 210016, Jiangsu, China
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    Conclusions

    Herein, AlSi10Mg alloy samples were successfully fabricated along different building directions using LPBF. After static mechanical tests, the room-temperature compressive strength could reach 201.0 MPa and the yield strength was 251.3 MPa. The tensile and yield strengths at 175 ℃ could reach 195.0 and 160.0 MPa, respectively. The static mechanical tests of the samples along different building directions revealed that the horizontal samples showed with better compression properties at room temperature and better tensile properties at a high temperature than the vertical samples. The LPBF-processed AlSi10Mg vertical sample showed excellent 107-cycle median fatigue strength of 151.25 MPa, while relevant research shows that the high cycle fatigue strength of AlSi12 alloys processed using LAM is 88.7 MPa. The excellent high-cycle fatigue resistance of AlSi10Mg processed using LAM was attributed to its unique fine cellular grains and fine Al-Si eutectic phases at grain boundaries. The fatigue life and threshold of fatigue crack growth of the LPBF-processed AlSi10Mg alloy were ~2.1×105 cycles and 0.981 MPa·m1/2, respectively. The findings of this study show that the excellent mechanical properties of AlSi10Mg alloys can be obtained by LPBF processing. This study can provide an academic reference for the application of LAM-processed aluminum alloys in aerospace and other fields.

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    Shiwen Qi, Peng Rong, Dan Huang, Yong Chen, Rui Wang, Donghua Dai, Dongdong Gu. Room- and High-Temperature Mechanical Properties of Aluminum Alloys Fabricated Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2022, 49(8): 0802001

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    Paper Information

    Category: laser manufacturing

    Received: Jan. 10, 2022

    Accepted: Feb. 11, 2022

    Published Online: Mar. 25, 2022

    The Author Email: Dongdong Gu (dongdonggu@nuaa.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/CJL202249.0802001

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