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Hot Deformation Behavior and Microstructural Evolution of Wire-Arc Additively Fabricated Inconel 718 Superalloy

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The hybridization of additive manufacturing techniques with conventional forming processes offers significant reduction in production cost, time, and material wastage to produce near-net shaped components with refined microstructure and desired properties comparable to its wrought counterparts. In this work, the thermomechanical behavior and microstructural evolution of heat-treated wire-arc additively manufactured Inconel 718 parts were investigated using a Gleeble® 3500 physical simulator at different strain rates and temperatures. The results showed that the serrated yielding and flow stress behavior were independent on the sample orientation under the same deformation conditions. The serration behavior was observed to be more sensitive to the applied deformation temperatures than that of strain rates, whereas the opposite was found to be true in case of flow stress (mechanical properties) behavior. The uniformity of dynamically recrystallized (DRX) microstructure was intricately related to the orientation of columnar grains and processing parameters. The evolution of a near-complete DRX structure was more favorable under low flow stress conditions if the deformation direction was aligned perpendicular to the long axis of columnar grains. The nucleation and growth of weakly textured DRX microstructure were characteristic of strain-induced grain boundary migration as a result of the bulging of migrating grain boundaries.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from University of Wollongong (UOW) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), respectively. The authors also would like to acknowledge the use of the facilities within the UOW Electron Microscopy center.

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    G. K. Sujan, Edohamen Awannegbe, Huijun Li & Zengxi Pan

  2. Electron Microscopy Centre, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia

    Azdiar A. Gazder

  3. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Clayton, Melbourne, 3168, Australia

    Daniel Liang & Nazmul Alam

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Sujan, G.K., Gazder, A.A., Awannegbe, E. et al. Hot Deformation Behavior and Microstructural Evolution of Wire-Arc Additively Fabricated Inconel 718 Superalloy. Metall Mater Trans A 54, 226–240 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-022-06863-3

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