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Studies of Post Heat Treatment of L-PBF-Inconel 718: Effects of Hold Time on Microstructure, Annealing Twins and Hardness

Version 1 : Received: 5 January 2021 / Approved: 6 January 2021 / Online: 6 January 2021 (14:57:26 CET)

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Tucho, W.M.; Hansen, V. Studies of Post-Fabrication Heat Treatment of L-PBF-Inconel 718: Effects of Hold Time on Microstructure, Annealing Twins, and Hardness. Metals 2021, 11, 266. Tucho, W.M.; Hansen, V. Studies of Post-Fabrication Heat Treatment of L-PBF-Inconel 718: Effects of Hold Time on Microstructure, Annealing Twins, and Hardness. Metals 2021, 11, 266.

DOI: 10.3390/met11020266

Abstract

The widely adopted temperature for solid solution heat treatment (ST) for the conventionally fabricated Inconel 718 is 1100 °C for a hold time of 1 h or less. This ST scheme is however not enough to dissolve Laves and annihilate dislocations completely in samples fabricated with Laser metal powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM)-Inconel 718. In spite this, the highest hardness obtained after aging for ST temperatures (970 - 1250 °C) is at 1100 °C/1h [1]. The unreleased residual stresses in the retained lattice defects are potentially affecting other properties of the material. Hence, this work aims to investigate if a longer hold time of ST at 1100 °C will lead to complete recrystallization while maintaining the strength after aging or not. For this study, L-PBF-Inconel 718 samples were ST at 1100 °C at various hold times (1, 3, 6, 9, 16 or 24 h) and aged to study the effects on microstructure and hardness. In addition, a sample was directly aged to study the effects of bypassing ST. The samples (ST and aged) gain hardness by 43 – 49 %, depending on hold time. A high density of annealing twins evolved during 3 h of ST and the quantity only slightly varies for longer ST.

Keywords

L-PBF; Inconel 718; heat treatment; microstructure; hardnes; recrystallization

Subject

MATERIALS SCIENCE, Biomaterials

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