Strain hardening behavior of additively manufactured and annealed AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy

The ductility of the Al alloys produced by additive manufacturing (AM) has become a critical property, as the AM Al alloys are increasingly used in the automotive industry. However, the ductility of as-built AM Al alloys is relatively low, even with optimized AM conditions. The post-annealing treatment provides an efficient way to improve ductility. Previous investigation has shown that the annealed AM AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy possesses superior ductility. However, the plastic deformation micro-mechanisms of the annealed AM AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy remain unclear. In this study, in-situ neutron diffraction was employed to explore the annealed AM AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy. The evolutions of phase stresses, dislocation density, and crystallite size in the annealed AM AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy during tensile deformation were analyzed. The experimental investigation reveals that the dislocation density in the Al matrix of the annealed AM AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy increases slowly in the early plastic deformation stage, and it reaches a saturated level upon the following uniform deformation. The crystallite size decreases quickly in the early deformation stage, and then it decreases slowly. The Kocks-Mecking model and the Voce model can capture the strain hardening behavior well. The determined physical constitutive equations can be applied in continuum mechanical computer simulations.

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Additive manufacturing

Aluminum alloy

Dislocation density

Kocks-Mecking model

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF)

Neutron diffraction

Strain hardening behavior

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600: Technik

620: Ingenieurwissenschaften

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Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence “Programmable Materials” (CPM)

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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the project CustoMat_3D, which was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with No. 03XP0101I. This work was also supported by the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence “Programmable Materials” (CPM). The neutron diffraction
ments were performed at TAKUMI in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of J-PARC with the proposal of 2019B0075. The authors are grateful to the beamline team of TAKUMI at J-PARC, Japan, for their kind support of the experiments.

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Strain hardening behavior of additively manufactured and annealed AlSi3.5Mg2.5 alloy