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Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process, Structure, And Properties: Holistic Approach To Establishing Metallurgical Quality, Hunter Taylor Dec 2022

Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process, Structure, And Properties: Holistic Approach To Establishing Metallurgical Quality, Hunter Taylor

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The advent of metal additive manufacturing (AM) was posed as a disruption to casting, forging, machining, and forming with the notion "complexity is free". However, since invention in the late 1990's the marketed potential has not been realized. Metal based AM is best viewed from the process-structure-properties-performance (PSPP) paradigm taught in material science and engineering, which links the process history to the part performance. Understanding the complex and localized process control made available by AM creates a significant challenge in defining the materials structure, properties, and performance. The lack of holistic understating of inputs and corresponding results has been identified …


A Dislocation-Based Crystal Plasticity Model For Hexagonal Close-Packed Polycrystals, Omid Sedaghat Apr 2022

A Dislocation-Based Crystal Plasticity Model For Hexagonal Close-Packed Polycrystals, Omid Sedaghat

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Due to their low neutron absorption cross-section and good corrosion properties, zirconium and its alloys have been widely used as the structural material in the core of nuclear reactors. These alloys are exposed to an intensive neutron flux which may lead to dimensional instabilities and the degradation of the mechanical properties of the alloy over the service time of the reactor. The changes in deformation behavior and mechanical properties can be traced back to the formation, evolution, and interaction of the irradiation-induced microstructural defects, e.g., point defect clusters, dislocation loops, and complex dislocation line networks. However, the materials constitutive models …