Abstract
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) shows great potential in titanium-alloy production as it is a solid-state process. However, data published so far have demonstrated the difficulty of producing dense and high-strength Ti alloy parts. Our previous studies have shown that nozzle design together with high-cost helium propulsive gas plays a crucial role in particle acceleration. In this work, special nozzles for Ti alloy were designed and validated experimentally with commercially available Ti6Al4V powder. Simulation results show that particle impact temperature increases remarkably for a long convergent length, while particle kinetic energy slightly increases, which is validated by experiments. The relationship between the particle impact temperature and practice diameter shows the first increase and then decrease. The experimental results show that as the nozzle convergent section becomes longer, the edges of the single-pass deposits become smoother, and the width, density, deposition efficiency, and microhardness of the single-pass deposits increase.
Highlights
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) [1,2], which has developed from the cold spray (CS) coating process, is a new member of the additive manufacturing technologies [3,4]
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Summary
Cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) [1,2], which has developed from the cold spray (CS) coating process, is a new member of the additive manufacturing technologies [3,4] It is based on the solid-state deposition of severely deformed powder particles that impact a substrate at high speeds to form a deposit. Temperatures are usually far below the melting point of the spraying powders, which allows for oxide-free deposits with a negligible heating effect on the spray materials and substrates. Residual stresses in these deposits are of the compressive type, which is beneficial in fabricating thick deposits [6,7].
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