Liu, L.; Wang, S.; Li, G.; Ma, Y. Microstructure Study on Very High Cycle Fatigue of an Additively Manufactured Aluminium Alloy via Advanced Characterization Methods. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 2025.
Liu, L.; Wang, S.; Li, G.; Ma, Y. Microstructure Study on Very High Cycle Fatigue of an Additively Manufactured Aluminium Alloy via Advanced Characterization Methods. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2025.
Liu, L.; Wang, S.; Li, G.; Ma, Y. Microstructure Study on Very High Cycle Fatigue of an Additively Manufactured Aluminium Alloy via Advanced Characterization Methods. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 2025.
Liu, L.; Wang, S.; Li, G.; Ma, Y. Microstructure Study on Very High Cycle Fatigue of an Additively Manufactured Aluminium Alloy via Advanced Characterization Methods. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 2025.
Abstract
Engineering application of additively manufactured (AM) metallic materials is quite limited by their fatigue behaviors which are very inconsistent with that of conventionally wrought or cast ones. Here, based on advanced material characterization techniques, such as focused ion beam (FIB), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the mi-crostructures underneath fracture surfaces were thoroughly investigated in an AM aluminium (AlSi10Mg) alloy with horizontal and vertical building orientation endured very-high-cycle fa-tigue (VHCF) loading under stress ratios R = –1, 0 and 0.5. Two VHCF failure specimens A and B were representatively selected to further SEM examine and TEM samples preparation via FIB milling. Specimen A was horizontally printed and failed at R = –1; specimen B was vertically printed and failed at R = 0. TEM samples A1 and B1 were lifted from locations near the crack ini-tiation sites on the fracture surfaces of specimens A and B; The locations of TEM samples A2 and B2 kept away from the crack origin sites but still within the “fish-eye” region of crack steady growth. TEM observations show that there was no characteristic microstructure induced by VHCF in different oriented specimens and under various R values.
Keywords
mechanical behavior; aluminium alloy; additive manufacturing; very-high-cycle fatigue (VHCF); crack initiation; microstructure; focused ion beam (FIB); optical microscopy (OM); scanning electron microscopy (SEM); transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Subject
Engineering, Other
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