Abstract
Laser-powder bed fusion (LPBF) enables the fabrication of complex metallic components by manipulating various laser scan strategies to control microstructure and texture. Multiple thermal cycling and rapid solidification lead to non-equilibrium, non-uniform microstructure, and micro-segregation at the melt pool boundary (MPB), whose accurate location is still invisible by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and quantitative concentration remains imprecise. In this study, we proposed a novel method to make it clear by controlling the crystallographic texture of 316 L stainless steel through unique LPBF processing parameters to obtain a single-crystal-like microstructure of the cellular structures along the laser scanning direction. The accurate location of the track-track MPB is distinguishable by means of the transverse and longitudinal cellular dislocation structures on both sides. The edge-on state of the track-track MPB makes the quantitative concentration analysis precisely using high-angle annular dark-field scanning TEM with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, which is in good agreement with the Scheil-Gulliver solidification simulations.
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