Fatigue behavior of additive manufactured 316L stainless steel parts: Effects of layer orientation and surface roughness
By R. Shrestha, J. Simsiriwong, Nima Shamsaei. Additive Manufacturing, 2019
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Abstract The effects of layer orientation and surface roughness on the mechanical properties and fatigue life of 316L stainless steel (SS) fabricated via a laser beam powder bed fusion (LB-PBF) additive manufacturing process were investigated. Quasi-static tensile and uniaxial fatigue tests were conducted on LB-PBF 316L SS specimens fabricated in vertical and diagonal directions in their as-built surface condition, as well as in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions where the surface had been machined to remove any effects of surface roughness. In the machined condition, horizontally built LB-PBF specimens possessed higher fatigue resistance, followed by vertically built specimens, while the lowest fatigue resistance was obtained for diagonal specimens. Similarly, in the as-built condition, vertical specimens demonstrated better fatigue resistance when compared to diagonal specimens. Furthermore, the detrimental effects of surface roughness on fatigue life of LB-PBF 316L SS specimens was not significant, which may be due to the presence of large internal defects in the specimens. Anisotropy of LB-PBF 316L SS specimens was attributed to the variation in layer orientation, affecting defects’ directionality with respect to the loading direction. These defect characteristics can significantly influence the stress concentration and, consequently, fatigue behavior of additive manufactured parts. Therefore, the elastic-plastic energy release rates, a fracture mechanics-based concept that incorporates size, location, and projected area of defects on the loading plane, were determined to correlate the fatigue data and acceptable results were achieved.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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- Effects of defects on mechanical properties in metal additive manufacturing: A review focusing on X-ray tomography insights (2020, background): “Another study [113] of the static and fatigue properties of L-PBF steel, without using X-ray tomography, revealed a few interesting observations with regards to lack of fusion defects and their effect on mechanical properties.”
- Additive manufacturing of steels: a review of achievements and challenges (2020, background): “[94] Shrestha R, Simsiriwong J, Shamsaei N (2019) Fatigue behavior of additive manufactured 316L stainless steel”
- High cycle fatigue behavior and life prediction for additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel: Effect of sub-surface porosity and surface roughness (2020, unknown): “Such an analysis may be found critical in presence of severe volumetric defects, whose detrimental effects are competitive with surface notches [31] or surface roughness [1,32,33].”
- Additive manufacturing for energy: A review (2020, background): “In some cases, variations in fatigue life and crack growth rate have been observed based on the build orientation, with the specimens tested “vertically”, with the build plane normal the tensile axis, exhibiting poorer fatigue properties [133,141].”