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Wood, P., Libura, T., Kowalewski, Z.L., Williams, G. and Serjouei, A. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7250-4131,
2019.
Influences of horizontal and vertical build orientations and post-fabrication processes on the fatigue behavior of stainless steel 316L produced by selective laser melting.
Materials, 12 (24): 4203.
ISSN 1996-1944
Abstract
In this paper, the influences of build orientation and post-fabrication processes, including stress-relief, machining, and shot-peening, on the fatigue behavior of stainless steel (SS) 316L manufactured using selective laser melting (SLM) are studied. It was found that horizontally-built (XY) and machined (M) test pieces, which had not been previously studied in the literature, in both stress-relieved (SR) or non-stress-relieved (NSR) conditions show superior fatigue behavior compared to vertically-built (ZX) and conventionally-manufactured SS 316L. The XY, M, and SR (XY-M-SR) test pieces displayed fatigue behavior similar to the XY-M-NSR test pieces, implying that SR does not have a considerable effect on the fatigue behavior of XY and M test pieces. ZX-M-SR test pieces, due to their considerably lower ductility, exhibited significantly larger scatter and a lower fatigue strength compared to ZX-M-NSR samples. Shot-peening (SP) displayed a positive effect on improving the fatigue behavior of the ZX-NSR test pieces due to a compressive stress of 58 MPa induced on the surface of the test pieces. Fractography of the tensile and fatigue test pieces revealed a deeper understanding of the relationships between the process parameters, microstructure, and mechanical properties for SS 316L produced by laser systems. For example, fish-eye fracture pattern or spherical stair features were not previously observed or explained for cyclically-loaded SLM-printed parts in the literature. This study provides comprehensive insight into the anisotropy of the static and fatigue properties of SLM-printed parts, as well as the pre- and post-fabrication parameters that can be employed to improve the fatigue behavior of steel alloys manufactured using laser systems.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Materials | ||||||
| Creators: | Wood, P., Libura, T., Kowalewski, Z.L., Williams, G. and Serjouei, A. | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
| Date: | 14 December 2019 | ||||||
| Volume: | 12 | ||||||
| Number: | 24 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1996-1944 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 16 Jan 2020 09:43 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2020 09:45 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/38982 |
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