Materials (Aug 2022)

Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process Parameters’ Optimization for Fabrication of Dense IN 625

  • Alexandru Paraschiv,
  • Gheorghe Matache,
  • Mihaela Raluca Condruz,
  • Tiberius Florian Frigioescu,
  • Laurent Pambaguian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15165777
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 16
p. 5777

Abstract

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This paper presents an experimental study on the influence of the main Laser Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) process parameters on the density and surface quality of the IN 625 superalloy manufactured using the Lasertec 30 SLM machine. Parameters’ influence was investigated within a workspace defined by the laser power (150–400 W), scanning speed (500–900 m/s), scanning strategy (90° and 67°), layer thickness (30–70 µm), and hatch distance (0.09–0.12 µm). Experimental results showed that laser power and scanning speed play a determining role in producing a relative density higher than 99.5% of the material’s theoretical density. A basic set of process parameters was selected for generating high-density material: laser power 250 W, laser speed 750 mm/s, layer thickness 40 µm, and hatch distance 0.11 mm. The 67° scanning strategy ensures higher roughness surfaces than the 90° scanning strategy, roughness that increases as the laser power increases and the laser speed decreases.

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