He, Y.; Huang, W.; Guo, W.; Li, Y.; Zhao, S.; Lin, D. An Investigation of the Anisotropic Fatigue Properties of Laser Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V under Vibration Loading. Materials2023, 16, 5099.
He, Y.; Huang, W.; Guo, W.; Li, Y.; Zhao, S.; Lin, D. An Investigation of the Anisotropic Fatigue Properties of Laser Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V under Vibration Loading. Materials 2023, 16, 5099.
He, Y.; Huang, W.; Guo, W.; Li, Y.; Zhao, S.; Lin, D. An Investigation of the Anisotropic Fatigue Properties of Laser Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V under Vibration Loading. Materials2023, 16, 5099.
He, Y.; Huang, W.; Guo, W.; Li, Y.; Zhao, S.; Lin, D. An Investigation of the Anisotropic Fatigue Properties of Laser Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V under Vibration Loading. Materials 2023, 16, 5099.
Abstract
Laser additively manufactured (LAM) Ti–6Al–4V alloy has huge application potential in aerospace structural parts such as turbine blades. However, there are few studies on the fatigue properties of such LAM parts under vibration loading, particularly with regard to anisotropy. In this paper, vibration fatigue properties of LAM Ti-6Al-4V by laser melted deposition process were investigated along the transversely deposited (TD) direction and parallelly deposited (PD) direction. Through the first-order bending vibration experiments, LAM Ti-6Al-4V alloy exhibits obvious anisotropic fatigue properties and significant dispersion in fracture position. The fracture morphology analysis reveals that the vibration fatigue failure was mainly dominated by the LAM process-induced defects and the microstructure. For the LAM samples without defects at crack initiation sites, the fatigue behavior is controlled by the prior β columnar grains with preferential orientation, which leads to enhanced fatigue crack propagation resistance for the PD samples. For the LAM samples with defects at initiation sites, having lower fatigue lives, the fatigue anisotropy strongly depends on the projection area of the lack-of-fusion defects relative to the loading direction, resulting in better fatigue performance for the TD samples.
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