Additive manufacturing of TiAl-based alloys

Printability of alloys for additive manufacturing

Although additive manufacturing (AM), or three dimensional (3D) printing, provides significant advantages over existing manufacturing techniques, metallic parts produced by AM are susceptible to distortion, lack of fusion defects and compositional changes. Here we show that the printability, or the ability of an alloy to avoid these defects, can be examined by developing and testing appropriate...

Additive Manufacturing of Al Alloys and Aluminium Matrix Composites (AMCs)

Thermal-cycling creep of g-TiAl-based alloys

In two-phase TiAl-based alloys, the coexisting 2 and phases exhibit a thermal expansion mismatch, so that increased creep rates during thermal cycling may be expected. Creep deformation of two g-TiAl-based alloys was investigated during thermal cycles between 900 and 300 or 350 C with applied tensile stresses of 32.5 or 37.0 MPa. Measured thermal cycling creep rates were compared with isotherma...

TiAl-BASED ALLOYS: PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

Intermetallic TiAl-based alloys represent an important class of high temperature structural materials providing a unique set of physical and mechanical properties that can lead to substantial payoffs in aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines and automotive industry. The present status and future perspectives of TiAl-based alloys are reviewed from the point of view of alloy design, processing...

Complex metallic alloys as new materials for additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing processes allow freeform fabrication of the physical representation of a three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD) data model. This area has been expanding rapidly over the last 20 years. It includes several techniques such as selective laser sintering and stereolithography. The range of materials used today is quite restricted while there is a real demand for manufac...