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Pictorial representation of the project’s technical plan including descriptions of project responsibilities for each organization.
Problem
Commercially available feedstocks that are often used for wire-arc directed energy deposition (DED) were not designed to serve as bulk material and therefore may not perform similarly to the original, cast materials. Although post-build heat treating is desirable to promote homogeneity, reduce residual stress, and perhaps enable relaxation of the interpass temperature constraints that are typically required for welding, there are no standardized heat treatment procedures for commercially available wire-arc feedstocks.
Objective
The objective of this effort is to develop and demonstrate an optimized wire-arc DED process and post-process heat-treating procedures for the casting replacement of HY-80 steel castings. This will be achieved by compiling available program data, determining and reviewing process/property relationships, and completing elemental refinement modeling with respect to MIL-100S-1.
Technical Approach
This effort is being led by the Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory (PSU ARL). The first task will be to perform computational modeling of the MIL-100S-1 alloy to identify equilibrium, non- equilibrium phases, and phase transformation temperatures to help inform the optimum wire-arc DED processing conditions and post heat-treating conditions. This task will also investigate optimum chemistries within the MIL-100S-1 specification to help reduce the quenching sensitivity to allow for more uniform properties between thick and thin sections. The second task will involve thermo-mechanical modeling of the wire-arc DED process to better understand the optimum build path to assure in process heating is maintained at acceptable levels to minimize distortion. This will also model the heat-treating response to understand expected heating and quenching curves as a function of distance from the surface. With the information gained from tasks 1 and 2, task 3 will produce builds by wire-arc DED and the builds will be sectioned for heat treating evaluations. Finally, task 4 will conduct material characterization on samples to assess the impact of various wire-arc DED processing and heat-treating conditions used.
Project Participants
Project Principal
Other Project Participants
- Questek
- John Deere
- Lincoln Electric
Public Participants
- U.S. Department of Defense
