Abstract
Direct fabrication techniques can be combined to produce composite DF specimens, with spray-forming rapidly building up the base material for die-surface features and backing, and LENS creating the other final-surface or fine-detail features. Residual stresses are lower, and the microstructural "processing zone" that marks the transition between the characteristic structure of each native DF process is narrower, for LENS deposited directly on the final as-spray-formed surface instead of a mechanically polished surface. Stress-relief of the spray-formed H-13 steel prior to additional LENS processing may also lower the residual stresses across the transition interface. Very large residual stresses can exist in H-13 steel across the interface between the two inherently different DF processes. However, proper characterization feedback should allow surface preparation and heat-treatment parameters to be chosen which minimize such stresses.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1471-1476 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Scripta Materialia |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 13 1998 |
Funding
Thanks to E.H. Lee for metallography of the various H-13 steel specimens. Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in part by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Transportation Technologies as part of the High Temperature Materials Laboratory User Program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and also by the Division of Materials Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract DE-AC05–96OR22464 with Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp.
Funders | Funder number |
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Division of Materials Science | |
Office of Basic Energy Sciences | |
Office of Transportation Technologies | |
U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC05–96OR22464 |
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |