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Abstract
Synchronous wire-powder feeding was adopted to overcome the poor mechanical properties of aluminum alloy thin-wall caused by limited filling composition in wire-based laser-arc hybrid additive manufacturing. The results showed that the optimized Mg powder feeding improved the droplet transfer into a fine spray mode with reduced transition time by 18 %. Moreover, not only the effective width coefficient of thin-wall increased from 89 % to 95 %, but also the subsequent machining allowance reduced from 1.25 to 0.48 mm. The synchronous wire-powder feeding improved the formation accuracy by 61.6 %. Although the deposition microstructure was mainly composed of dendrites with obvious direction and increased average grain size by 54 %, a new Mg2Si strengthened phase was also found. The ultimate tensile strength of thin-wall was increased by 12 % from 227.3 to 255.5 MPa. The related evolution mechanisms of deposition stability and mechanical properties by optimized powder feeding on the hybrid additive manufacturing were mainly discussed.
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.