Abstract
The present work extends the examination of selective laser melting (SLM)-fabricated 15-5 PH steel with the 8%-transient-austenite-phase towards fully-reversed strain-controlled low-cycle fatigue (LCF) test. The cyclic-deformation response and microstructural evolution were investigated via in-situ neutron-diffraction measurements. The transient-austenite-phase rapidly transformed into the martensite phase in the initial cyclic-hardening stage, followed by an almost complete martensitic transformation in the cyclic-softening and steady stage. The compressive stress was much greater than the tensile stress at the same strain amplitude. The enhanced martensitic transformation associated with lower dislocation densities under compression predominantly governed such a striking tension-compression asymmetry in the SLM-built 15-5 PH.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 777 |
Journal | Materials |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
Funding: Research conducted at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy. The authors are grateful to the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Programs MOST 110-2224-E-007-001 and MOST 108-2221-E-009-131-MY4. This work was financially supported by the “Center for the Semiconductor Technology Research” from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan. Also supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under Grant MOST 110-2634-F-009-027. This work was supported by the Higher Education Sprout Project of the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and the MOE, Taiwan. SYL was supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (2021R1A4A1031494, 2020K2A9A2A06070856). Acknowledgments: E.-W.H. and his group members very much appreciate the financial support from the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) Neutron Program.
Keywords
- 15-5 PH stainless steel
- In-situ neutron diffraction
- Low-cycle fatigue
- Martensite transformation
- Selective laser melting