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Acta Metall Sin  2018, Vol. 54 Issue (6): 918-926    DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2017.00305
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Effect of Transverse Static Magnetic Field on Microstructure of Al-12%Si Alloys Fabricated by Powder-BlowAdditive Manufacturing
Sansan SHUAI1, Xin LIN2, Wuquan XIAO1, Jianbo YU1, Jiang WANG1(), Zhongming REN1
1 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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Sansan SHUAI, Xin LIN, Wuquan XIAO, Jianbo YU, Jiang WANG, Zhongming REN. Effect of Transverse Static Magnetic Field on Microstructure of Al-12%Si Alloys Fabricated by Powder-BlowAdditive Manufacturing. Acta Metall Sin, 2018, 54(6): 918-926.

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Abstract  

Due to the great advantage in manufacturing component with complex structures, additive manufacturing (3D print), essentially the rapid solidification of tiny metallic molten pool (hemisphere like with diameter ranging from dozens of microns to several millimeters) has become an important formation technique. Using powder laser melting, the effect of transverse static magnetic field on the solidified structure of additive manufactured Al-12%Si alloy was studied. The macrostructure was formed by white band (mainly primary α-Al phase) and dark grey area (mainly eutectic phase) and no obvious influence was presented with or without static transverse magnetic field of 0.35 T. However, for the microstructure, the primary α-Al in dark grey area formed as columnar structure without magnetic field was found to transform to dendritic like with developed dendrite arms when under a static transverse magnetic field. The analysis on thermoelectricity and dimensionless Hartman parameter which used to characterize the restriction of static magnetic field on molten flows show that under a static transverse magnetic field of 0.35 T, the thermoelectric magnetic force can be as high as a magnitude of 105 N/m3, and Hartman values is far more than 10. The results indicate that the Marigoni and thermosolutal convection in laser melting pool was restricted. The transform from columnar to equiaxed dendrite of primary α-Al in dark grey area under static magnetic field was attributed to the fragmentation by thermoelectric magnetic force (105 N/m3) in solid phase. In addition, the formation of high order dendrite arms was supposed to be caused by the restriction of static magnetic field on the melt.

Key words:  additive manufacturing      transverse static magnetic field      Al-12%Si alloy      columnar to equiaxed transition (CET)      thermoelectric magnetic force     
Received:  21 July 2017     
ZTFLH:  TG146.2  
Fund: Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.51690162 and 51604171), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos.2017T100291 and 2017M611530) and Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NWPU (Nos.SKLSP201706 and SKLSP201602)

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Fig.1  Experimental apparatus (a) and schematic of magnetic field setup (b)
Fig.2  Morphology (a) and size distribution (b) of Al-12%Si powders
Fig.3  Macroscopic morphology of single layer deposition under different powder feeding capacities (a), denity curves of single-channel thin-wall specimens with different laser energies and scanning speeds (Insets show the samples with the lowest and highest fraction of porosity, respectively) (b), and additive manufactured specimen using optimum parameters under the conditions of the single-channel thin-wall sample physical map (feeding capacity: 30 g/min, laser energy: 600 W, scanning speed: 4.2 mm/s) (c)
Fig.4  The overall morphologies of macro and microstructure of longitudinal and side sections (B—magnetic field intensity)(a) single channel thin-wall sample(b) organization diagram cut out in Fig.4a(c, d) the overall morphologies of longitudinal sections without and with magnetic field intensity of 0.35 T(e, f) the overall morphologies of side-section without and with magnetic field intensity of 0.35 T
Fig.5  Top (a, b), central (c, d) and bottom (e, f) OM images of Al-12%Si samples by laser melting (regions extract from black box in Figs.4c and d) without (a, c, e) and with (b, d, f) 0.35 T magnetic field intensity (VS—scan speed of laser)
Fig.6  Top (a, b), central (c, d) and bottom (e, f) high magnification OM images of Al-12%Si samples by laser melting (regions extract from black box in Fig.5) without (a, c, e) and with 0.35 T (b, d, f) magnetic field intensity
Fig.7  Schematics of effect of thermoelectric magnetic force on dendrites in molten pool under transverse steady magnetic field (FS—thermoelectric magnetic force, Fχ—Lorentz force, Bx—magnetic field intensity in the X direction, I— current intensity, Vy—melting flow speed, JTE—thermoelectric current intensity, TE—abbreviation of thermoelectric)(a) main view(b) side view(c) CET transition map(d) magnetic field suppression melt flow dia- gram
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