TY - GEN
T1 - Laser power and scanning speed influence on intermetallic and wear behaviour of Laser metal deposited titanium alloy composite
AU - Mahamood, Rasheedat M.
AU - Akinlabi, Esther T.
N1 - Funding information: This work was supported by the University of Johannesburg Research Council and L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science.
PY - 2016/10/21
Y1 - 2016/10/21
N2 - Ti6AI4V, an aerospace alloy, is the most widely produced titanium alloy because of its exciting properties such as high strength to weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance properties. Despite these properties of this titanium alloy, the wear property is poor because of its chemical property that makes it react with other material it comes in contact with. Therefore, there is need for surface modification of the titanium alloy if it will be used in application where it will come in contact will other material in rubbing or sliding action. TiC has been used to improve the wear resistance property of titanium alloy with success. Laser metal deposition (LMD) process, an additive manufacturing process, is an advanced manufacturing process for achieving part with the desired surface property as well as for producing complex part directly from the three dimensional (3D) computer aided design (CAD) model of the part. Processing parameter has a great influence on the resulting properties of the deposited part using LMD. This research investigates the influence of laser power and scanning speed on the in-situ formation of titanium aluminide (Ti3Al) during laser metal deposition of TiC/Ti6AI4V composite and its overall effect on the wear resistance behaviour of the deposited composites. The laser power was changed between 1.8 and 3.0 kW and the scanning speed was changed between 0.05 and 0.1 m/s. It was found that, the intermetallic produced increased as the scanning speed was reduced from 0.1 to 0.05 m/s. The intermetallic formed at low scanning speed was found to decrease as the laser power was increased from 1.8 to 3.0 kW, while it was found to increase as the laser power was increased at higher scanning speed. The wear resistance property increases as the intermetallic formation increases. This study revealed that finding an optimum process parameter is important in achieving better properties in laser metal deposition of TiC/Ti6A14V composite. The optimum process parameter was found to be at laser power of 1.8 kW and scanning speed of 0.05 m/s based on the process parameters considered in this study.
AB - Ti6AI4V, an aerospace alloy, is the most widely produced titanium alloy because of its exciting properties such as high strength to weight ratio and excellent corrosion resistance properties. Despite these properties of this titanium alloy, the wear property is poor because of its chemical property that makes it react with other material it comes in contact with. Therefore, there is need for surface modification of the titanium alloy if it will be used in application where it will come in contact will other material in rubbing or sliding action. TiC has been used to improve the wear resistance property of titanium alloy with success. Laser metal deposition (LMD) process, an additive manufacturing process, is an advanced manufacturing process for achieving part with the desired surface property as well as for producing complex part directly from the three dimensional (3D) computer aided design (CAD) model of the part. Processing parameter has a great influence on the resulting properties of the deposited part using LMD. This research investigates the influence of laser power and scanning speed on the in-situ formation of titanium aluminide (Ti3Al) during laser metal deposition of TiC/Ti6AI4V composite and its overall effect on the wear resistance behaviour of the deposited composites. The laser power was changed between 1.8 and 3.0 kW and the scanning speed was changed between 0.05 and 0.1 m/s. It was found that, the intermetallic produced increased as the scanning speed was reduced from 0.1 to 0.05 m/s. The intermetallic formed at low scanning speed was found to decrease as the laser power was increased from 1.8 to 3.0 kW, while it was found to increase as the laser power was increased at higher scanning speed. The wear resistance property increases as the intermetallic formation increases. This study revealed that finding an optimum process parameter is important in achieving better properties in laser metal deposition of TiC/Ti6A14V composite. The optimum process parameter was found to be at laser power of 1.8 kW and scanning speed of 0.05 m/s based on the process parameters considered in this study.
KW - Intermetallic
KW - Laser metal deposition
KW - Processing parameters
KW - TiAl
KW - Titanium aluminide
KW - Wear
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85013436255
VL - 2
T3 - Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
SP - 1037
EP - 1040
BT - WCECS 2016 - World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2016
A2 - Grundfest, Warren S.
A2 - Douglas, Craig
A2 - Ao, S. I.
PB - Newswood Limited
T2 - 2016 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2016
Y2 - 19 October 2016 through 21 October 2016
ER -