Zhang, An and Xing, Yanfeng and Yang, Fuyong and Zhang, Xiaobing and Wang, Hongze and Yu, Tiejun and Manolakos, Dimitrios E. (2021) Development of a New Cold Metal Transfer Arc Additive Die Manufacturing Process. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1687-8434
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Abstract
Due to its high efficiency, cold metal transfer (CMT) arc additive manufacturing presents considerable potential in the aluminium alloy additive manufacturing industry. However, during CMT arc additive manufacturing, the surrounding air environment promotes the lateral flow of liquid aluminium and the instability of the molten pool, reduces the surface quality and material utilisation of deposition walls, and causes internal hydrogen pores and coarse columnar grains, which negatively affect the structure and mechanical properties of the deposition walls. This study developed a CMT arc additive die manufacturing process to control the substrate material and deposition path to improve the physical properties of the deposition wall. The experimental results indicated that the copper plates can affect molten pool flow and material formation in the additive process, minimise hydrogen pores, and refine columnar grains. The porosity dropped from 2.03% to 0.93%, and the average grain size decreased from 16.2 ± 1.4 to 13.6 ± 1.3 μm, thereby enhancing the structure and mechanical properties of the deposition wall to attain standard additive manufacturing products.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Opene Prints > Engineering |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2023 07:34 |
Last Modified: | 25 May 2024 07:47 |
URI: | http://geographical.go2journals.com/id/eprint/909 |