Abstract
080 M40 Medium carbon steel has potential applications in axles, shafts, bolts, studs, spindles, automotive components and many more. In high friction applications these steels possess better wear resistance, and after weld overlay, they can exhibit superior properties. Additive manufacturing (AM) is an advanced method in which material in the form of powder or wire is used to form a desired shape. Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) is an AM method which is used in industrial application to recreate, repair and produce corrosion resistance weld overlay on a part. In comparison with conventional overlay techniques such as Plasma Transfer Arc (PTA), Metal Inert Gas (MIG) & Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG); Laser weld overlays are faster techniques which can make thin sections with good metallurgical bond and with high productivity and flexibility. Apart from that it has also advantage of low heat affected zone, minimum metal dilution, and can produce thin layers with good aesthetics. In this paper, 080 M40 steel samples were used as substrate and WC- NiCr powder was weld overlayed using LMD method. Such kind of weld overlays will be had potential application in the field of mining. The weld overlay was deposited in parallel layered fashion and effect of set of parameters like feed rate, dilution, size of the bead and processing speed were used to produce weld overlays of 1 mm thickness. metallurgical, micro structural and mechanical properties of these weld overlay materials have been investigated. These properties are very important in the processing of mining tools as well as other parts produced using the LMD process and also for other future applications. Further effect of laser processing parameters on the resulting properties of these steels weld overlays are discussed.
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