Fatigue crack growth behavior of wire arc additively manufactured 316L austenitic stainless steel

IF 5.7 1区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Thin-Walled Structures Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113182

Yangyu Chen , Man-Tai Chen , Ou Zhao , Barbara Rossi , Xiongfeng Ruan

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Abstract

This study investigated the fatigue crack growth (FCG) performance of 316L austenitic stainless steel produced by wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) through fatigue tests and fractographic analyses. A total of 11 compact tension (CT) specimens were designed considering three minimum-to-maximum load ratios (R= 0.1, 0.3, 0.5), various load directions (θ = 0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°) and two surface conditions (milled and as-built). Details of specimen fabrication and design as well as fatigue test setup are presented. The Paris’ law material constants of all specimens were derived. The influences of various parameters on the FCG behavior such as crack length development histories and fatigue crack growth rate (FCGR) are discussed. The test results demonstrated that the fatigue crack growth rate increased with the load ratio, and that the specimen with θ = 0°, i.e. load parallel to the welding pass, possessed higher FCGR value than the counterparts characterized by other load directions. The as-built and milled specimens had similar FCG performance. The FCG test results of WAAM 316L austenitic stainless steel obtained in this study were compared against those of 316L steels manufactured by traditional hot-rolling and selective laser melting as well as the predictions by current international standards (BS 7910 and IIW-1823-07). The fractographies of typical CT specimens from macroscopic and microscopic perspectives were analyzed. Transgranular fracture was observed as evidenced by abundant fatigue striations, secondary cracks and dimples.

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Thin-Walled Structures 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

9.60

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20.30%

发文量

801

审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses. Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering. The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.