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Crystallographic Texture and Substructural Phenomena in 316 Stainless Steel Printed by Selective Laser Melting

Version 1 : Received: 4 May 2023 / Approved: 8 May 2023 / Online: 8 May 2023 (12:04:18 CEST)

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Santamaria, R.; Salasi, M.; Rickard, W.D.A.; Pojtanabuntoeng, K.; Leadbeater, G.; Iannuzzi, M.; Reddy, S.M.; Quadir, M.Z. Crystallographic Texture and Substructural Phenomena in 316 Stainless Steel Printed by Selective Laser Melting. Materials 2023, 16, 4289. Santamaria, R.; Salasi, M.; Rickard, W.D.A.; Pojtanabuntoeng, K.; Leadbeater, G.; Iannuzzi, M.; Reddy, S.M.; Quadir, M.Z. Crystallographic Texture and Substructural Phenomena in 316 Stainless Steel Printed by Selective Laser Melting. Materials 2023, 16, 4289.

Abstract

There is a fast-growing interest in the use of selective laser melting (SLM) for metal/alloy additive manufacturing. Our current knowledge of SLM printed 316 stainless steel (SS316) is limited and sometimes appears sporadic, presumably due to the complex interdependent effects of a large number of process variables of the SLM processing. This is reflected from the discrepant findings in the crystallographic textures and microstructures in this investigation with those reported in the literatures, which also vary itself. The as-printed material is macroscopically asymmetric in both the structures and crystallographic textures. The <101> and <111> crystallographic directions align parallel with the SLM scanning direction (SD) and build direction (BD), respectively. Like-wise, some characteristic low angle boundary features are reported crystallographic, while this investigation unequivocally proves them non-crystallographic since they always maintain an identical alignment with the SLM laser scanning direction irrespective of the matrix material’s crystal orientation. There is also 500±200 nm columnar or cellular features, depending on the cross-section, generally found all over the sample. These columnar or cellular features are formed with walls made of dense packing of dislocations entangled with Mn, Si and O enriched amorphous inclusions. They remain stable after the ASM solution treatments at 1050 °C temperatures, and therefore, are capable of hindering boundary migration events of recrystallization and grain growth. Thus, the nanoscale structures can be retained at high temperatures. Large 2-4 µm inclusions form during the solution treatment, within which the chemical and phase distribution are heterogeneous.

Keywords

Selective laser melting (SLM); 3D printing; Additive manufacturing (AM); 316 stainless steel (SS316); EBSD; TEM

Subject

Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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