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Improving the Pitting Corrosion Performance of Additively Manufactured 316L Steel Via Optimized Selective Laser Melting Processing Parameters

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Additive manufacturing (AM) has many advantages over conventional manufacturing methods, such as the ability to produce free-form complex shapes and materials with unique properties. Nevertheless, the implementation of AM components into corrosive environments is ultimately limited by the poor corrosion performance of the printed materials when compared to their conventionally manufactured counterparts. In this study, we demonstrate improvement and tailoring of corrosion resistance in AM parts via precise control of laser processing parameters, which were adjusted to optimize pitting corrosion performance for fully dense parts of austenitic stainless steel 316L. Laser power, speed, and hatch spacing were systematically varied while maintaining a constant energy density in a laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) AM system. Powders were consolidated via selective laser melting (SLM) to establish the parameters influencing pitting performance through potentiostatic anodic oxidation. The results show a strong correlation between processing parameters and resistance to pitting corrosion, attributed to laser velocity-induced variations in microstructure and residual stress state.

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This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under the Corrosion Control Technologies Program, task order N00024-17-F-8021 under contract N00024-13-D-6400. MO, DJS, and JRT acknowledge support from the same program but under contract N00014-20-1-2293. D.M. and R.K. gratefully acknowledge the support from the Office of Naval Research, Contract No. N00014-17-1-2533 (Dr. Airan Perez, Program Manager). The authors would like to thank Dr. Morgan Trexler and Dr. Jeffrey Maranchi for their program management efforts at JHU/APL. The authors would also like to thank Christopher M. Peitsch, Jarod C. Gagnon, Christopher M. Barr, and Lina Valivullah for their contributions to this work. This research used the Pair Distribution Function Beamline of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.

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    Joseph J. Sopcisak, Brendan P. Croom, Timothy J. Montalbano, Rengaswamy Srinivasan & Steven M. Storck

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Sopcisak, J.J., Ouyang, M., Macatangay, D.A. et al. Improving the Pitting Corrosion Performance of Additively Manufactured 316L Steel Via Optimized Selective Laser Melting Processing Parameters. JOM 74, 1719–1729 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05207-1

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