The Effect of Optimized Substrate Orientation on Layer Step in Laser Metal Deposition of Single-Crystal Nickel-Base Superalloys.

Materials (Basel)

Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Artificially Structured Functional Materials and Devices, Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China.

Published: September 2024

Laser metal deposition is a promising way to repair the surface defects of single-crystal components in turbo engines. Understanding the mechanisms and improving the efficiency of the repair have been long-standing problems. In this study, the influence of the substrate orientation on the laser metal deposition (LMD) was investigated and its effect on repair layer-step was examined. LMD experiments were conducted on single crystal superalloys with a normal substrate orientation (001)/[100] and with an optimized substrate orientation (101)/[101¯]. It reveals that the laser cladding with the optimized orientation leads to a larger height of the [001] dendrite region than that with the normal orientation. The calculated results of the growth velocity, thermal gradient, and susceptibility to CET in the dendrite-preferred growth direction indicate that, for the (101)/[101¯] orientation, the [001]/[100] boundary is located at relative high position in each layer, which not only decreases the formation ability of stray grain significantly, but also eliminates the appearance of the maximum susceptibility. This makes the necessary dilution position much higher, and thus, a large cladding step can be selected. Our findings could find potential applications in laser repair of single-crystal components.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11433452PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma17184607DOI Listing

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