The trajectory of additively manufactured titanium alloys with superior mechanical properties and engineered microstructures

S Alipour, A Moridi, F Liou, A Emdadi - Additive Manufacturing, 2022 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) plays a crucial role in the manufacturing and development of
advanced materials including titanium alloys for engineering applications. During the last …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in inoculation treatment for powder-based additive manufacturing of aluminium alloys

Q Tan, M Zhang - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Powder-based additive manufacturing (AM) is revolutionizing the fabrication of advanced
engineering metallic materials, including aluminium (Al) alloys, which are the workhorse …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Zr on microstructure and properties of TC4 alloy fabricated by laser additive manufacturing

XJ Jiang, SJ Bao, LW Zhang, XY Zhang, LS Jiao… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of Zr on the microstructure of laser additive manufactured Ti–6Al–4V
(TC4) alloy is studied by adding different contents of Zr (0%, 15%, 30%, 45%), and the …

[HTML][HTML] Additive manufacturing of fine-grained high-strength titanium alloy via multi-eutectoid elements alloying

J Su, F Jiang, C Tan, F Weng, FL Ng, MH Goh… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Developing fine-grained high-strength titanium (Ti) alloys by additive manufacturing has
boomed interest for both research and application. The eutectoid element addition has been …

Ultrauniform, strong, and ductile 3D-printed titanium alloy through bifunctional alloy design

J Zhang, MJ Bermingham, J Otte, Y Liu, Z Hou, N Yang… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Coarse columnar grains and heterogeneously distributed phases commonly form in metallic
alloys produced by three-dimensional (3D) printing and are often considered undesirable …

Radial bimetallic structures via wire arc directed energy deposition-based additive manufacturing

L Squires, E Roberts, A Bandyopadhyay - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Bimetallic wire arc additive manufacturing (AM) has traditionally been limited to depositions
characterized by single planar interfaces. This study demonstrates a more complex radial …

Fatigue life prediction based on a deep learning method for Ti-6Al-4V fabricated by laser powder bed fusion up to very-high-cycle fatigue regime

Y Jia, R Fu, C Ling, Z Shen, L Zheng, Z Zhong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microstructural defects and inhomogeneity of titanium alloys fabricated by laser powder bed
fusion (LPBF) make their fatigue behaviors much more complicated than the conventionally …

Crack-free and high-strength AA2024 alloy obtained by additive manufacturing with controlled columnar-equiaxed-transition

X Zhu, Z Zhu, T Liu, W Liao, Y Du, H Wei - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of high-strength Al alloys is challenging due to the
formation of both hot and cold cracks. In the present work, highly dense and crack-free …

Designing ultra-strong and ductile hierarchical titanium alloys via interstitial solute-mediated multi-morphologic α-nanoprecipitates

H Zhang, J Zhang, S Liu, D Zhang, G Liu, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
In conventional duplex titanium (Ti) alloys, the soft primary α-precipitates (α p) are beneficial
to ductility with the loss of high yield strength, while the continuous α-precipitates at grain …

Post-process treatments for additive-manufactured metallic structures: a comprehensive review

J Ge, S Pillay, H Ning - Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2023 - Springer
This review summarizes the recent research progress on the post-processing techniques to
improve the as-built metallic structure fabricated by additive manufacturing. The …