Stainless steels are established in various fields with challenging environments, e.g., offshore, petrochemical, and automotive industries. The combination of high-performance properties and high-value added applications makes stainless steels attractive for additive manufacturing (AM). In powder-based AM processes such as laser-directed energy deposition (DED-LB/M), typically prealloyed powders are used for part generation. By an innovative approach called in situ alloying, the chemical composition of prealloyed powder can be adjusted by mixing it with an additional powder material. This allows the material properties to be flexibly and efficiently tailored for specific applications. In this work, a standard duplex stainless steel (DSS) is modified for the first time with elemental powders in order to systematically adjust the resulting phase formation, mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance. For this, powder mixtures were generated consisting of prealloyed DSS 1.4462 and additions of pure chromium (1.0–7.0 wt. %) or nickel (1.0–5.0 wt. %) powder. Processing them by means of DED-LB/M resulted in specimens (rel. density > 99.7%) with ferrite–austenite phase ratios ranging from almost 10%:90% to 90%:10%. Increasing the chromium content successively increased the ferrite percentage, resulting in higher material hardness, higher strength, and resistance against pitting corrosion but poor ductility and toughness compared to unmodified DSS. In contrast, an increased nickel content resulted in an increased austenite formation with lower hardness and strength but increased ductility. This strategy was shown to add flexibility to powder-based AM processes by enabling an on-demand material design for stainless steels.
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September 11 2023
Tailoring material properties of duplex stainless steel by DED-LB/M and in situ alloying with elemental powders
Andreas Maier
;
Andreas Maier
a)
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2-6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; electronic mail: a.maier@blz.org
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Manuel Rühr
;
Manuel Rühr
(Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing)
2
KSB SE & Co. KGaA
, Bahnhofstraße 1, Pegnitz 91257, Germany
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Marcel Stephan
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Marcel Stephan
(Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing)
1
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2-6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
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Sebastian Frankl
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Sebastian Frankl
(Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing)
1
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2-6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
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Stephan Roth
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Stephan Roth
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing)
1
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2-6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
3
Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT)
, Paul-Gordan-Straße 6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
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Michael Schmidt
Michael Schmidt
(Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision)
1
Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 2-6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
3
Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT)
, Paul-Gordan-Straße 6, Erlangen 91052, Germany
4
Institute of Photonic Technologies (LPT)
, Konrad-Zuse-Straße 3/5, Erlangen 91052, Germany
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; electronic mail: a.maier@blz.org
J. Laser Appl. 35, 042008 (2023)
Article history
Received:
June 26 2023
Accepted:
August 22 2023
Citation
Andreas Maier, Manuel Rühr, Marcel Stephan, Sebastian Frankl, Stephan Roth, Michael Schmidt; Tailoring material properties of duplex stainless steel by DED-LB/M and in situ alloying with elemental powders. J. Laser Appl. 1 November 2023; 35 (4): 042008. https://doi.org/10.2351/7.0001119
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