About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2025 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2025)
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Symposium
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2025 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2025)
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Presentation Title |
A Test Artifact for Rapid Evaluation of Material Ductility Variation in Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
Author(s) |
Dinh Son Nguyen, Shane Garner, Albert To |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Albert To |
Abstract Scope |
This work proposes a test artifact design to evaluate the ductility variation of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processed materials by measuring the length of cracking specifically designed to occur along a plane in the artifact in the presence of residual stress. It is found that the crack lengths measured in test artifacts printed in Inconel 718 using different process parameters have a decaying exponential relationship with elongations measured in tensile testing of notched tensile specimens, having an R-squared value of 0.9238 in the regression. This strong correlation indicates that an increase in crack length in a test artifact indicates smaller notch ductility in the printed material. It is also found that the test artifacts printed using dry powders consistently have shorter cracks and hence higher ductility than those printed using powders with 70% humidity for a wide range of process parameters, which is consistent with previous findings. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Post-meeting proceedings |