Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Abstract
Shielding gas, metal vapors, and gases trapped inside powders during atomization can result in gas porosity, which is known to degrade the fatigue strength and tensile properties of components made by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. Post-processing and trial-and-error adjustment of processing conditions to reduce porosity are time-consuming and expensive. Here, we combined mechanistic modeling and experimental data analysis and proposed an easy-to-use, verifiable, dimensionless gas porosity index to mitigate pore formation. The results from the mechanistic model were rigorously tested against independent experimental data. It was found that the index can accurately predict the occurrence of porosity for commonly used alloys, including stainless steel 316, Ti-6Al-4V, Inconel 718, and AlSi10Mg, with an accuracy of 92%. In addition, experimental data showed that the amount of pores increased at a higher value of the index. Among the four alloys, AlSi10Mg was found to be the most susceptible to gas porosity, for which the value of the gas porosity index can be 5 to 10 times higher than those for the other alloys. Based on the results, a gas porosity map was constructed that can be used in practice for selecting appropriate sets of process variables to mitigate gas porosity without the need for empirical testing.
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