Abstract
Additive manufacturing (AM) allows for the fabrication of complex near net shape components, leading to new design opportunities and significant savings, for example by decreasing tooling and materials cost or by accelerating prototype development. New Ni-based alloy heat exchangers with thin-walled areas exposed to hot gases will, however, suffer from corrosion degradation, and the high temperature oxidation performance of AM alloys needs to be addressed. Alloy N06002 (Ni-22Cr-18Fe-9Mo) fabricated by electron beam melting (EBM) and selective laser melting (SLM) along with EBM-fabricated N07247 and modified N07247 were cyclic oxidation tested at 950ºC in air and humid air for durations ranging from 100 h to 5000 h. Increased spallation rates were observed initially for the AM N06002 alloys in comparison with wrought N06002 alloy because of the AM alloy specific microstructures. After ~2000 h, the situation was reversed with significant spallation observed for the wrought HX alloy only. Low mass gains were observed for the EBM N07247 alloys at 950ºC, but thick oxide scales were observed locally due to the presence of oxidized cracks. Massive oxidation of these cracks led to fast oxidation rates at 1100ºC.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 13558 |
Journal | NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series |
Volume | 2019-March |
State | Published - 2019 |
Event | Corrosion Conference and Expo 2019 - Nashville, United States Duration: Mar 24 2019 → Mar 28 2019 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).
Keywords
- Additive manufacturing
- Cyclic oxidation
- Electron beam melting
- Ni-based superalloy
- Selective laser melting