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Role of defects on the high cycle fatigue behavior of selective laser melted Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy

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Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloys manufactured using selective laser melting (SLM) possess outstanding static mechanical properties and thus have great potential application in the aerospace industry. However, their fatigue performance has not been clearly investigated and understood. In this work, the high cycle fatigue properties of an Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy manufactured via SLM with optimised process parameters (relative density over 99%) was studied with focus on the defects, whose size, shape and distribution were determined through X-ray tomography. Microstructure analysis results show that the Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy produced using SLM presents a periodic, inhomogeneous structure consisting of equiaxed grains at the boundary and columnar grains at the centre of one molten pool, which causes a significant difference in deformational mismatch under the fabrication conditions. Furthermore, X ray-CT results show that the defects, mainly porosity, are randomly distributed with the critical flaw size to initiate fatigue crack, thereby reducing fatigue life. When the stress ratio (R) is 0.1, the annealed sample presents good fatigue strength (σf) reaching 100.5 MPa, which is close to that of high-strength wrought 7075Al. Finally, a fatigue crack propagation mode connected with defect microstructure characteristics was established for prediction of fatigue properties.

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This work was supported by National Key Research and Development Plan of China (2016YFB1100102) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (52005411) and the Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing (NPU) (2020-tz-02).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, China

    Zehao Qin, Nan Kang, Zihong Wang, Qian Wang, Jing Chen, Xin Lin & Weidong Huang

  2. Key Laboratory of Metal High Performance Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Design, MIIT China, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

    Zehao Qin, Nan Kang, Zihong Wang, Qian Wang, Jing Chen, Xin Lin & Weidong Huang

  3. School of Material Science and Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China

    Fengying Zhang

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Qin, Z., Kang, N., Zhang, F. et al. Role of defects on the high cycle fatigue behavior of selective laser melted Al–Mg–Sc–Zr alloy. Int J Fract 235, 129–143 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-021-00593-0

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