Open AccessWork hardening in selective laser melted Al‐12Si alloy
Author(s) -
Konda Gokuldoss Prashanth
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
material design & processing communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2577-6576
DOI - 10.1002/mdp2.46
Subject(s) - selective laser melting , materials science , alloy , strain hardening exponent , brittleness , composite material , hardening (computing) , toughness , ductility (earth science) , work hardening , casting , exponent , metallurgy , creep , microstructure , layer (electronics) , linguistics , philosophy
Selective laser melting (SLM) is one of the additive manufacturing processes that has been extensively studied, due to its potential to fabricate materials with improved functionalities and properties. Al‐12Si is one of the casting alloy that has been extensively studied using SLM. It has been found that the SLM processed Al‐12Si is very brittle but rather tough. The present letter is focused to investigate the strain hardening behavior and its exponent on the SLM processed Al‐12Si alloy. The present study is a preliminary example to evaluate a possible correlation between strain hardening rate, strain hardening exponent, and to the ductility and toughness.