Structure and property of 2219 aluminum alloy fabricated by droplet+arc additive manufacturing
A new arc additive manufacturing process—droplet+arc additive manufacturing(DAAM)technology was applied to manufacture aluminum alloy samples in order to improve the quality and the efficiency of aluminum alloy.A new droplet generation system(DGS)was applied instead of the conventional wire feeding system,which makes the material addition and arc energy independent of each other.The formed material is 2219 aluminum alloy,and a trace amount of Mg element was added through the DGS.A thin-walled structure was deposited using the DAAM system at a significantly higher deposition rate(160mm3/s)than conventional wire and arc additive manufacturing techniques.The microstructure of the cross section of the thin-walled structure was observed and analyzed.Results showed that the grain morphology of the thin-walled structure was dominated by columnar crystals and exhibited a periodic distribution of inner-layer columnar crystals and inter-layer equiaxed crystals.The average tensile strengths in the horizontal and vertical directions were 455.4 MPa and 417.0 MPa after T6 heat treatment,while the yield strengths were 342.2 MPa and 316.4 MPa,respectively.The comparison results with the previous studies show that the addition of Mg element increases the yield strength of 2219 aluminum alloy,but leads to a corresponding decrease in elongation.
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