Additively manufactured hierarchical stainless steels with high strength and ductility

YM Wang, T Voisin, JT McKeown, J Ye, NP Calta, Z Li… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Many traditional approaches for strengthening steels typically come at the expense of useful
ductility, a dilemma known as strength–ductility trade-off. New metallurgical processing …

On the origin of the high tensile strength and ductility of additively manufactured 316L stainless steel: Multiscale investigation

B Barkia, P Aubry, P Haghi-Ashtiani, T Auger… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report that 316L austenitic stainless steel fabricated by direct laser deposition (DLD), an
additive manufacturing (AM) process, have a higher yield strength than that of conventional …

New insights on cellular structures strengthening mechanisms and thermal stability of an austenitic stainless steel fabricated by laser powder-bed-fusion

T Voisin, JB Forien, A Perron, S Aubry, N Bertin… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid solidification cellular structures are known to play a crucial role in helping achieve
high strength and high ductility in 316L austenitic stainless steels fabricated by laser powder …

Architectured heterogeneous alloys with selective laser melting

SG Jeong, GM Karthik, ES Kim, A Zargaran, SY Ahn… - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Hetero-structuring is considered as one of the effective strengthening routes in metallic
materials to realize excellent strength-ductility synergy. However, tailoring several …

Evolution of microstructure and mechanical properties in 2205 duplex stainless steels during additive manufacturing and heat treatment

N Haghdadi, C Ledermueller, H Chen, Z Chen… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) offers exceptional design freedom, but its high thermal
gradients often generate non-equilibrium microstructures with chemical and interfacial …

The effect of post-processing heat treatment on the microstructure, residual stress and mechanical properties of selective laser melted 316L stainless steel

Q Chao, S Thomas, N Birbilis, P Cizek… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Additively manufactured 316L austenitic stainless steel typically displays a hierarchical
microstructure consisting of fine columnar grains, cellular dislocation tangles and nano …

Enhanced strength–ductility synergy and transformation-induced plasticity of the selective laser melting fabricated 304L stainless steel

Z Zhu, W Li, QB Nguyen, X An, W Lu, Z Li, FL Ng… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
The microstructure, mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of the 304L
stainless steel (SS) additively manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM) were …

Dislocation network in additive manufactured steel breaks strength–ductility trade-off

L Liu, Q Ding, Y Zhong, J Zou, J Wu, YL Chiu, J Li… - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Most mechanisms used for strengthening crystalline materials, eg introducing crystalline
interfaces, lead to the reduction of ductility. An additive manufacturing process–selective …

Grain refinement of 316L stainless steel through in-situ alloying with Ti in additive manufacturing

W Zhai, W Zhou, SML Nai - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2022 - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a transformative approach to fabricating metal components in
the industry. However, it is challenging for fusion-based AM to fabricate metallic materials …

Strengthening and hardening mechanisms of additively manufactured stainless steels: The role of cell sizes

Z Li, B He, Q Guo - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
We designed micromechanical experiments to examine the deformation behaviors of
austenitic stainless steels fabricated by additive manufacturing. Micro-pillars containing …