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Enhancement of the Microstructure and Fatigue Crack Growth Performance of Additive Manufactured Titanium Alloy Parts by Laser-Assisted Ultrasonic Vibration Processing
Summary
This paper is not about microplastics. It studied how laser-assisted ultrasonic surface treatment improves the fatigue crack resistance and microstructure of 3D-printed titanium alloy parts. The term 'plastic deformation' here refers to metal deformation processes, not plastic pollution.
Abstract Post-processing techniques can efficiently improve the surface quality, address microstructural defects, and optimize mechanical properties in additively manufactured parts. Surface severe plastic deformation processes such as ultrasonic nanocrystal surface modification (UNSM) integrated with localized laser heating were explored to enhance the surface properties, microstructure as well as the fatigue crack growth properties (FCG) in both directions of built. We successfully induced greater plasticity flow and achieved beneficial refinement of the surface grain structure by precisely controlling the heat and impact energies during surface treatment process. The LA-UNSM process, with the parameters utilized in this study considerably decreased the FCG rates of treated samples, when compared to samples without surface treatment. Improved fatigue crack growth properties along vertical and horizontal orientations after the post-process treatment were attributed to the induced-microstructural changes, improved surface quality, induced compressive residual stresses through gradient structure deformation layer that was prepared on the surface of the material. The fractographic analysis revealed that the cracks mostly originated from the pores in the as-produced state. This observation shows a clear correlation between the surface treatment performed and a substantial improvement in fatigue crack growth resistance.
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