Leo, P.; Renna, G.; Soni, N.; De Pascalis, F.; Primo, T.; Del Prete, A. On the Effect of Exposure Time on Al-Si10-Mg Powder Processed by Selective Laser Melting. Metals2024, 14, 76.
Leo, P.; Renna, G.; Soni, N.; De Pascalis, F.; Primo, T.; Del Prete, A. On the Effect of Exposure Time on Al-Si10-Mg Powder Processed by Selective Laser Melting. Metals 2024, 14, 76.
Leo, P.; Renna, G.; Soni, N.; De Pascalis, F.; Primo, T.; Del Prete, A. On the Effect of Exposure Time on Al-Si10-Mg Powder Processed by Selective Laser Melting. Metals2024, 14, 76.
Leo, P.; Renna, G.; Soni, N.; De Pascalis, F.; Primo, T.; Del Prete, A. On the Effect of Exposure Time on Al-Si10-Mg Powder Processed by Selective Laser Melting. Metals 2024, 14, 76.
Abstract
In this study, the effect of increasing exposure time on microstructures, defectiveness, mechanical properties and corrosion behavior of selective laser melted sample Al-Si10-Mg powder have been investigated. The sample were processed at the same power (375 W) and scan speed (2000 mm/s) but with increasing exposure time. Exposure time equal to 40, 50 and 60 µs was applied. The features of the analyzed samples show that with increasing exposure time a better efficiency of the heat input has been obtained with larger size of melting pool and Si particles and lower defectiveness. Moreover, being the coarser microstructure associated a to lower level of voids, the average hardness is similar for the analyzed samples. The potentiodynamic curves of the samples show that the voids occurrence is more significant with respect to the scale of micro-structure on corrosion behavior being the sample processed at the highest exposure time the more resistant to corrosion. The experimental techniques used in the present study were Optical microscope, Sem microscope, Hardness and X-Ray Computed Tomography.
Chemistry and Materials Science, Metals, Alloys and Metallurgy
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