Talebi, Mohammad, razaghian, Ahmad, Niroumand, Behzad, Saboori, Abdollah. (1404). Effect of In-Situ Alloying with Si on the Microstructure of a Novel Ti-5Cu Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion. , 58(1), 45-54. doi: 10.22059/jufgnsm.2025.01.05
Mohammad Talebi; Ahmad razaghian; Behzad Niroumand; Abdollah Saboori. "Effect of In-Situ Alloying with Si on the Microstructure of a Novel Ti-5Cu Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion". , 58, 1, 1404, 45-54. doi: 10.22059/jufgnsm.2025.01.05
Talebi, Mohammad, razaghian, Ahmad, Niroumand, Behzad, Saboori, Abdollah. (1404). 'Effect of In-Situ Alloying with Si on the Microstructure of a Novel Ti-5Cu Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion', , 58(1), pp. 45-54. doi: 10.22059/jufgnsm.2025.01.05
Talebi, Mohammad, razaghian, Ahmad, Niroumand, Behzad, Saboori, Abdollah. Effect of In-Situ Alloying with Si on the Microstructure of a Novel Ti-5Cu Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion. , 1404; 58(1): 45-54. doi: 10.22059/jufgnsm.2025.01.05
Effect of In-Situ Alloying with Si on the Microstructure of a Novel Ti-5Cu Alloy Manufactured by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Journal of Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials
1Department of Materials Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), Qazvin, 3414896818, Iran
2Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, 8415683111, Iran
3Department of Management and Production Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 10129, Italy
چکیده
The present work aims to explore the influence of Si addition on the microstructure of a novel Ti-5Cu alloy produced by the Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) technique, under an in-situ alloying strategy. For this purpose, Ti–5Cu and Ti–5Cu–1Si samples were manufactured under the same volumetric energy density (VED), i.e., 50.26 J/mm³. The findings revealed that incorporating 1 wt% Si into the Ti-5Cu alloy converted the prior β columnar and equiaxed grains with an average size of 41 μm and 22 μm, respectively, to finer equiaxed prior β grains within the Ti-5Cu-1Si microstructure, which featured with an average size of about 8 μm. Greater tendency for columnar to equiaxed transition and a notable grain refinement with Si addition were linked to a greater constitutional supercooling zone created by the rejection of Si solute atoms in front of the solidification front. Comparison of the solidification ranges for Ti-5wt%Cu and Ti-1wt%Si alloys plotted by PANDAT software revealed that Si has a more severe impact on the solidification range than Cu, making it a potentially better option for inducing columnar to equiaxed transition. Incorporating 1% Si to the Ti-5Cu alloy increased the growth restriction factor from 35 to 60 K, resulting in an almost 3-fold reduction in grain size. Addition of Si to the Ti-5Cu alloy also significantly refined the average length of α lath from about 4 μm to about 1.7 μm in the microstructure of Ti–Cu–Si alloys.