Artificial ageing and residual strain mapping of high strength Al alloys for Laser powder bed fusion

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Al alloys are widely used for light-weight structures and components. When processed by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), an additive manufacturing (AM) technology, high-strength Al alloys show sharp hot-crack sensitivity. A common approach to overcome this problem relies on the use of Ti- and Zr-based inoculant phases to form fine equiaxed grains to better accommodate solidification strains. Ti and Zr modify severely the aging behaviour of the alloys, thus new heat treatment routes have to be designed. Here we plan to perform in-situ time-resolved XRD analyses on Al-Cu-Mg-Zr and Al-Cu-Mg-Ti-B alloys to investigate the microstructure and precipitate evolution following different heat treatment routes. Residual strain mapping will be also performed at RT on the same materials after different annealing schedules. The achieved results will be useful for the AM industrial and scientific community to design new high strength Al alloys for L-PBF processes and their relative heat treatments.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-821567452
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/821567452
Provenance
Creator Mauro CODURI ORCID logo; Eleanor LAWRENCE BRIGHT ORCID logo; Maurizio VEDANI ORCID logo; Federico LARINI
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields