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Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Strength Loss of 1.2709 Maraging Steel Produced by Selective Laser Melting
Jarosław Piekło1, Aldona Garbacz-Klempka1, Dawid Myszka2
1Faculty of Foundry Engineering, AGH University of Krakow, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland.
Abstract:
The result of the development of additive manufacturing (AM) methods is the increasing use of the selective laser melting (SLM) method as a technique for producing tooling for injection moulds and die casting pressure moulds from maraging steel powders. The mould components are subjected to varying thermo-mechanical loads during these operations. This paper presents a numerical model that is used to predict the fatigue life of a material that is loaded with a time-varying temperature field according to the classic and modified Coffin test. Using a computational model, the temperature changes in the resistance-heated specimen and the stress and strain fields that are caused by this phenomenon were determined. Using three different multiaxial fatigue criteria, the fatigue life of SLM steel was determined. Numerical calculations were verified using experimental thermal fatigue tests on 1.2709 SLM steel that was aged at 490 °C as well as via metallographic tests. The numerical model was used to predict the durability of the same steel aged at 540 °C. The effect of specimen clamping conditions on the fatigue life of SLM steel was determined numerically. The value of the decrease in strength of SLM steel as a result of the increasing number of cycles of temperature changes was determined experimentally; a great influence of ageing temperature on fatigue life was found. Changes in the structure of steel occurring during cyclic changes in temperature are presented.
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