Lichao Zhang , Hongshan Zhou , Jingyuan Chen , Hongyang Wang , Weiwei Liu , Zhaodong Zhang , Gang Song , Liming Liu , Zhao Zhang
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Abstract
The difference of cooling rates on the surface and the interior of thin-walled structures leads to significant differences of microstructures in additive manufacturing (AM). To reveal the microstructure control in wire arc additive manufacturing of thin-walled structures, a gas-heat coupling model with experimental validation is proposed. The computational accuracy can reach 96 % in prediction of temperatures and microstructures. Increasing the preheating or scanning speed leads to a higher probability of heterogeneous nucleation on the surface of thin-walled structures. When the pre-heating is increased from 550 K to 750 K, the proportion of equiaxed grains increases by 20.8 %. When the gas flow rate of super cooling is increased from 20 L/min to 30 L/min, the size of equiaxed grains is decreased from 0.33 mm to 0.23 mm on the surface, and the width of columnar grains is decreased from 0.53 mm to 0.42 mm in the interior. This is due to the significant differences in cooling rates in thin-walled structures.
期刊介绍:
Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.
Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.
The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.