About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing: Process-induced Microstructures and Defects
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Presentation Title |
Metastable Phase Formation in a High-Strength Aluminum Alloy Fabricated Using Additive Manufacturing |
Author(s) |
Andrew D. Iams, Jordan Weaver, Brandon Lane, Darby LaPlant, Hunter Martin, Fan Zhang |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Andrew D. Iams |
Abstract Scope |
While additive manufacturing (AM) is attractive for high-strength aluminum components, many of these alloys were originally designed for direct chill casting combined with a series of thermomechanical treatments. The rapid solidification inherent to AM can result in cracking and microstructural deviations, compared to wrought counterparts. The AA7A77 is a high-strength aluminum alloy designed for AM, which mitigates cracking through a grain refinement mechanism. Although this grain refinement mechanism is well understood, little is currently known about the formation of other secondary phases within the microstructure. As a result, a multi-length scale microstructural analysis and computational simulations were used to investigate additively manufactured AA7A77. The results revealed the rapid solidification process contributed to two distinct metastable phases, one which formed at the beginning of solidification and appeared exclusively within fine grains, while the other, a quasicrystal, formed at the termination of solidification within coarse grains and along grain boundaries. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
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Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Aluminum, Solidification |