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The texture and crystal orientation of Ti-6Al-4V components, manufactured by shaped metal deposition (SMD), is investigated. SMD is a novel rapid prototyping tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding technique leading to near-net-shape components. This involves sequential layer by layer deposition with repeated partial melting and heat treatment, which results in epitaxial growth of large elongated prior β grains. This leads to a directionally solidified texture, where the prior β grains exhibit only a small misorientation with each other. The β grains grow in \( \left\langle { 100} \right\rangle \) direction with a second \( \left\langle { 100} \right\rangle \) direction perpendicular to the wall surface. During cooling, the α phase transformation follows the Burgers orientation relationship leading to a Widmanstätten structure, with orientation relations between most of the α lamellae and also of the residual β phase. The directionally solidification and the transformation into the α phase following the Burgers relationship results in a texture, where the hcp pole figures look similar to bcc pole figures.
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The research is performed with the financial support of the RAPOLAC STREP project under Contract No. 030953 of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission (www.RAPOLAC.eu), which is gratefully acknowledged. The work of Rosemary Gault and her team at AMRC (Sheffield, United Kingdom), where the components have been built, is highly appreciated.
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Baufeld, B., Van der Biest, O. & Dillien, S. Texture and Crystal Orientation in Ti-6Al-4V Builds Fabricated by Shaped Metal Deposition. Metall Mater Trans A 41, 1917–1927 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-010-0255-x
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