Abstract
AbstractThis paper investigates long fatigue life characteristics of AlSi10Mg and AlSi7Mg aluminium alloys produced using direct metal laser sintering. An in‐house built ultrasonic fatigue testing machine was used to carry out fatigue tests on specimens machined from heat‐treated AlSi10Mg and AlSi7Mg alloys subjected to constant fully reversed tension–compression loadings. The fatigue life data acquired for these two additive manufacturing (AM) aluminium alloys were compared with previously published data under heat treatment and non‐heat treatment conditions. It was found that fatigue data of tested specimens fit more closely the data of specimens without any heat treatment. Fatigue test results indicate that effects of heat treatment on high cycle fatigue (HCF) and very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) performance of AM alloys should be further investigated in the context of the microstructural changes.
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