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Acta Materialia. 2025, 303, p. 121696

Effect of nanoscale cellular structure on the mechanical properties of Inconel 718 with unique hierarchical structure fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

Acta Materialia Inc

英語

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2025-11-13

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121696

Cho K., Yamashita K., Kakutani S., et al. Effect of nanoscale cellular structure on the mechanical properties of Inconel 718 with unique hierarchical structure fabricated by laser powder bed fusion. Acta Materialia 303, 121696 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121696.

The deformation behavior and strengthening mechanism of Inconel 718 with a hierarchical structure composed of microscale crystallographic lamellar microstructure (CLM) and nanoscale cellular structure, fabricated by laser powder bed fusion, were clarified via nanoscale microstructural and in-situ neutron diffraction analyses. The CLM is a layered structure parallel to the building direction (BD) and consists of relatively wide main and narrow sub-layers with 〈110〉 and 〈100〉 orientations, respectively, with respect to BD. This is the first study to demonstrate that the yield stress of the alloys depends strongly on deformation stresses of the sub-layers, even though Schmid factors of the primary slip system for both layers are the same. The sub-layer continues to deform elastically even beyond the micro-yield point of the main layer, which results in the macroscopic strengthening at an early stage of deformation. On the other hand, the cellular structure is formed in both layers, associated with a dendritic cell growth along 〈100〉 direction, Nb segregation between the cells and an accumulation of dislocations to decrease a residual stress. The cell boundaries with numerous dislocations and Nb segregation act as a strong barrier to dislocation motion resulting in a stress increase through the Hall-Petch law, even though they are low-angle grain boundaries. The spacing and morphology of the cell boundary depend strongly on fabrication conditions. The optimized cellular structure provides significant strengthening comparable to or greater than that caused by large-angle grain boundaries, thereby increasing the macroscopic strength of the alloys through hardening of the sub-layer.

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Effect of nanoscale cellular structure on the mechanical properties of Inconel 718 with unique hierarchical structure fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

Acta Materialia Inc

英語

2025-11-13

Acta Materialia

303

121696

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.121696

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/103524