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    Effect of Build Orientation on the Microstructure, Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of a Biodegradable High Manganese Steel Processed by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
    (Basel : MDPI, 2021) Otto, M.; Pilz, S.; Gebert, A.; Kühn, U.; Hufenbach, J.
    In the last decade, additive manufacturing technologies like laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) have emerged strongly. However, the process characteristics involving layer-wise build-up of the part and the occurring high, directional thermal gradient result in significant changes of the microstructure and the related properties compared to traditionally fabricated materials. This study presents the influence of the build direction (BD) on the microstructure and resulting properties of a novel austenitic Fe-30Mn-1C-0.02S alloy processed via LPBF. The fabricated samples display a {011} texture in BD which was detected by electron backscatter diffraction. Furthermore, isolated binding defects could be observed between the layers. Quasi-static tensile and compression tests displayed that the yield, ultimate tensile as well as the compressive yield strength are significantly higher for samples which were built with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to BD compared to their parallel counterparts. This was predominantly ascribed to the less severe effects of the sharp-edged binding defects loaded perpendicular to BD. Additionally, a change of the Young’s modulus in dependence of BD could be demonstrated, which is explained by the respective texture. Potentiodynamic polarization tests conducted in a simulated body fluid revealed only slight differences of the corrosion properties in dependence of the build design.
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    Investigation of constitutive relationship and dynamic recrystallization behavior of 22MnB5 during hot deformation
    (Amsterdam : Elsevier B.V., 2019) Xu, Y.; Birnbaum, P.; Pilz, S.; Zhuang, X.; Zhao, Z.; Kräusel, V.
    In order to analyze the softening behavior of 22MnB5 steel and further predict the constitutive relationship during hot sheet metal forming, a series of isothermal hot compression tests were conducted at the temperature range of 800–950 °C and strain rate range of 0.01–0.8 s−1 on BAEHR 805 A/D thermo-mechanical simulator system. Based on the friction corrected flow curves, the characteristic strain and stress of dynamic recrystallization (DRX) were derived from the Kocks-Mecking plots and expressed as a function of Zener-Hollomon parameter. Moreover, a physical constitutive model considering work hardening (WH), dynamic recovery (DRV) and DRX as well as corresponding JMAK-type DRX kinetics were developed. The results showed that the established physical equations can accurately predict the flow behavior with a correlation coefficient of 0.997 and average absolute relative error of 3.89%. Optical observation of the microstructure after hot compression revealed that the established DRX kinetics accurately reflects the reality, and then a Zener-Hollomon parameter dependent dynamic recrystallized grain size model was developed. Furthermore, EBSD analysis was carried out to study the effect of deformation conditions on martensite morphology and the results show that a lower temperature and higher strain rate lead to a finer martensite packet while the martensite block width becomes larger under the higher strain rate.