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Laser metal deposition of mechanical milled IN718/Al2O3 nanocomposite

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Metal matrix nanocomposites have attracted worldwide interest due to their applications in several industrial sectors. However, metal matrix powder preparation is an important factor to consider during additive manufacturing of composites. In this work, the potential of laser metal deposition (LMD) to produce composite deposits from powders feedstock obtained by high-energy ball milling materials is presented. Inconel 718/Al2O3 nanocomposite processed by sonication-assisted high-energy ball milling was deposited in the form of single-clad track via LMD. Commercial Inconel 718 powder without alumina was also evaluated to compare the effect of the ceramic nanoparticles. IN718/Al2O3 composite was successfully deposited by LMD on IN718 substrates. It was found that Al2O3 nanoparticles were partially retained and mostly distributed at the upper regions of the single-clad tracks. Alumina-enriched zones were formed in situ during solidification at the surface of the single-clad tracks. These segregation regions were identified as spinel-type oxides based on Al–Ti–Cr constituents. Al–Ti and/or Al–Ti–O reaction occurs during melting due to their high reactivity as elemental materials.

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The authors thanks to CONACYT Consortium in Additive Manufacturing (CONMAD) for the use of experimental facilities for this work.

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This work was financially supported by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT—Mexico) under projects no. CB-2016–01-286086, AEM-275781, TAMU-CONACYT Project ID 2017–007, and master’s scholarship and the program Investigadores por México-Conacyt (Project Numbers 2015–85 and 730), COZCyT.

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  1. CONACYT, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Ramón López Velarde 801, 98000, Zacatecas, México

    Haideé Ruiz-Luna

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Ramón López Velarde 801, 98000, Zacatecas, México

    Pedro Márquez-Martínez

  3. Centro de Ingeniería y Desarrollo Industrial, Pie de la Cuesta 702, 76125, Santiago de Querétaro, México

    Ángel Iván García-Moreno & Enrique Martínez-Franco

  4. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Unidad Querétaro, Libramiento Norponiente 2000, 76230, Santiago de Querétaro, México

    Juan Manuel Alvarado-Orozco

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Haideé Ruiz-Luna, conceptualization-data curation, investigation, design, formal analysis, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition, project administration; Pedro Márquez-Martínez, conceptualization-data curation, investigation, design, methodology, data collection; Ángel Iván García-Moreno, writing—review and editing; Juan Manuel Alvarado-Orozco, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition, project administration; Enrique Martínez-Franco, conceptualization-data curation, investigation, design, formal analysis, methodology, data collection, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, project administration.

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Ruiz-Luna, H., Márquez-Martínez, P., García-Moreno, Á.I. et al. Laser metal deposition of mechanical milled IN718/Al2O3 nanocomposite. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 127, 1189–1197 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-11577-w

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