TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of build direction on the microhardness and dry sliding wear behaviour of laser additive manufactured Ti-6Al-4V
AU - Palanisamy, Chandramohan
AU - Bhero, Shepherd
AU - Abiodun Obadele, Babatunde
AU - Apata Olubambi, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to metal casting station, University of Johannesburg, South Africa for funding this research work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This work presents micro structural and tribological behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V fabricated by direct metal laser sintering technique. The laser sintering was carried out at laser power of 170 W in an argon atmosphere. The microstructure, phase composition, micro hardness and wear study were determined. It has been found that specimens built vertically (VB) contained vanadium carbide (VC) and titanium oxide (TiO) phases in the present of α and β phases resulting in higher micro hardness as compared to horizontal build (HB) specimens. Wear volume loss was determined in a dry sliding wear configuration. An increase in applied load from 5 N to 25 N resulted in an increment in wear volume loss. The presence of delamination could be observed on the worn surface of HB specimen.
AB - This work presents micro structural and tribological behaviour of Ti-6Al-4V fabricated by direct metal laser sintering technique. The laser sintering was carried out at laser power of 170 W in an argon atmosphere. The microstructure, phase composition, micro hardness and wear study were determined. It has been found that specimens built vertically (VB) contained vanadium carbide (VC) and titanium oxide (TiO) phases in the present of α and β phases resulting in higher micro hardness as compared to horizontal build (HB) specimens. Wear volume loss was determined in a dry sliding wear configuration. An increase in applied load from 5 N to 25 N resulted in an increment in wear volume loss. The presence of delamination could be observed on the worn surface of HB specimen.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.matpr.2017.11.097
DO - 10.1016/j.matpr.2017.11.097
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041294661
SN - 2214-7853
VL - 5
SP - 397
EP - 402
JO - Materials Today: Proceedings
JF - Materials Today: Proceedings
IS - 1
ER -