Fatigue behaviour of HIPed and stress relieved Ti6Al4V alloy specimens
produced by SLM
Abstract
Fatigue behaviour of HIPed and stress relieved Ti6Al4V alloy specimens
produced by SLM was analysed (Rε = -1). The HIP process caused a
microstructural transformation decreasing the hardness and monotonic
properties that not allowed fatigue strength increase. A bilinear
behaviour in the elastic strain-fatigue life curve was observed, because
of Young´s modulus decrease during the cyclic elasto-plastic tests
consequence of subgrains formation. The Smith-Watson-Topper and total
strain energy density models showed a good concordance between predicted
and experimental fatigue lives in notched samples.