About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Modeling, Simulation and Artificial Intelligence
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| Presentation Title |
F-32: Melt Pool Control and Segregation Using Magnetic Field in Additive Manufacturing |
| Author(s) |
Ivars Krastins, Xianqiang Fan, Harry E. Chapman, Catherine Tonry, Matthaios Alexandrakis, Peter Soar, Sebastian Marussi, Koulis Pericleous, Peter D. Lee, Andrew Kao |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ivars Krastins |
| Abstract Scope |
Laser additive manufacturing has become an attractive research topic in industry and academia. It offers benefits over conventional approaches, but comes with many challenges to tackle like keyholing, porosity, anisotropic strength, etc. Most can be linked to melt pool dynamics – convective transport of heat and mass.
We propose a way to mitigate the problems by applying static magnetic field control during AM. We have developed and validated a multi-physics code called TESA (ThermoElectric Solidification Algorithm) that reveals processes inside the melt pool including thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic flow that competes and dominates over the inherent Marangoni flow.
We have captured the flow behaviour change when a Lorentz force is introduced through a combined numerical and experimental study. Tungsten tracer particles have been used to gauge the dynamics of the melt pool. The microstructure results show the direct impact of the Lorentz force to the improved grain structure and solute segregation patterns. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Additive Manufacturing, Modeling and Simulation, Other |