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Micrometric surface topologies are required for a wide range of technical applications. While lowered surface features have been used for many years to improve the tribological behavior of contacting surfaces, there are also other fields of application, where the potential of elevated surface features is known, e. g. for metal forming tools. However, the demand for a high wear resistance of these structures often inhibits an industrial application. A solution is offered by structuring techniques that use additional material. A promising approach is the localized dispersing of hard ceramic particles by pulsed laser radiation, the so-called laser implantation. This paper describes the potential to adjust the geometry as well as the mechanical properties of laser implanted surfaces by means of microstructural and topological investigations. Afterwards, results of a wear test are given. It can be shown that dome-shaped or ring-shaped structures on a micrometric scale can be produced with high hardness and wear resistance.
Skin-pass rolling is a substantial process step in the production line of sheet material for automotive applications. Textured rolls are used to emboss an immaterial surface structure on sheets for improving their formability in subsequent deep drawing operations. In this paper, state of the art techniques for texturing skin-pass rolls are discussed in order to assess their ability to meet optimal tribological parameters. Two main problems are identified: firstly, structured rolls are affected by ongoing wear limiting the operating time and necessitates perpetual maintenance. Secondly, state of the art techniques are not able to exploit the theoretically known potential of immaterial surface structures for enabling micro-lubrication mechanisms due to geometrical inadequacies.
Based on these findings, a new approach for texturing of skin-pass rolls is introduced. The technique uses a localised dispersing of hard ceramic particles by use of pulsed laser radiation. It is shown in this paper that this technique allows the creation of elevated structures with high hardness on the surface of 1.2379 cold-working steel. The wear behaviour of such textured rolls was investigated in a lubricated twin-disc-test. The experiments show that no significant wear of the laser produced structures occur during the test duration. The observed results lead to the assumption that the proposed technique allows the creation of skin-pass roll structures with significantly higher durability.
State-of-the-art laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) machines allow pre-heating of the substrate plate to reduce stress and improve part quality. However, two major issues have been shown in the past: First, with increasing build height the apparent pre-heat temperature at the surface can deviate drastically from the nominal pre-heat temperature in the substrate plate. Second, even within a single layer the local surface pre-heat temperature can show large gradients due to thermal bottlenecks in the part geometry underneath the top surface. Both lead to unwanted changes in microstructure or defects in the final parts. In this study, a first attempt is taken to show the feasibility of pre-heating the top surface with the onboard laser beam to overcome the mentioned issues. A single layer of a group of three parts built from IN718 to a height of 33.5 mm is pre-heated in a commercially available PBF-LB/M machine to an average steady state surface temperature of 200 °C using the onboard laser beam. The parts are continuously heated, omitting powder deposition and melting step. Temperatures are measured by thermocouples underneath the surface. The experiments are supported by a thermal finite element (FE) model that predicts the temperature field in the parts. When heating the parts uniformly with the laser beam, differences in surface temperatures as large as 170 K are observed. To overcome this inhomogeneity, the heat flux supplied by the laser beam is modulated. An optimized, spatial heat flow distribution is provided by the thermal FE model and translated into a scan pattern that reproduces the optimized heat distribution on the PBF-LB/M machine by locally modulating hatch distance and scan velocity. This successfully reduces the differences in surface temperature to 20 K. Thermographic imaging shows that a homogeneous surface temperature can be achieved despite the localized heat input by the beam. The potential for industrial application of the optimized laser-heating technique is discussed.
Mechanical properties such as ultimate tensile strength, yield strength, and tensile elongation of parts manufactured with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) can differ significantly after the building process limiting the advantage of production flexibility of that technology. At this background, the present work investigated the influence of post process heat treatments (HT) on microstructure, hardness, and tensile properties of AlSi10Mg specimens in different As-built (AB) conditions. For this purpose, two superordinate aspects were covered within this study. Firstly, various HTs were performed on specimens built-up with the same L-PBF machine applying the same parameter set-up. Results of tensile tests and hardness measurements were discussed considering the microstructural changes examined with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy as well as X-ray diffraction, and gathered in a material data map. Based on the observed microstructural changes and a calculated quality index which comprises strength and ductility properties, three HTs were selected for the second part of this work. Therein, the effect of these HTs on specimens fabricated with overall three L-PBF machines working with different raw materials, process parameters, and build-up strategies was studied. Specimens characterization included porosity measurements, the evaluation of material defects, microstructure analysis via SEM, hardness measurements, and tensile tests. It was found that strength properties in the AB condition revealed appreciable deviations: Values of yield strength and ultimate tensile strength were from 228 to 292 MPa and from 346 to 484 MPa, respectively. Whereas heat treated specimens at 300 °C for 0.5 as well as 2 h only exhibited slight differences in strength, a complete homogenization of strength properties was obtained after conducting a T6 HT. Nevertheless, ductility was not homogenized after heat treating caused by the presence of material defects such as keyhole pores and lack of fusion defects. It was shown that even slight differences in porosity determined in cross-sections can significantly affect ductility properties.
The paper describes a systematic investigation of the EM influenced laser beam welding of the aluminum die casting alloy AlSi12(Fe) in comparison to a reference material, a wrought aluminum alloy AlMg3. By using of a face centred CCD test plan, the influencing variables laser power, welding velocity and magnetic flux density are varied with regard to their influence on the remaining porosity. The global pore fraction of the weld seams was analyzed by X-ray images with ImageJ. This enabled a qualitatively very good regression model to be derived for the respective material, which identifies the dominant influencing variables. The results prove, statistically verified, for the investigated parameter range, that
- the magnetic flux density is the main cause for the porosity reduction,
- the porosity rises with increasing laser power the porosity in the weld seams rises,
- the influence of the welding velocity is negligible,
- the pore quantity in wrought alloy is more strongly minimized by the magnetic flux density than in die casting,
- the porosity decreases due to the EM influence by approx. 70 % compared to the unaffected welds. This effect is emphasized by the contour line charts, which illustrate the relationship between laser power and magnetic flux density.
With the exception of the quadratic influence of B at the wrought alloy, the statistical correlation shows a linear development of the respective influence variables for both aluminum alloys. In order to investigate these deviations, further simulations with a focus on weld pool geometry and weld pool flow are to be performed. In addition, the welding results can be classified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13919-2 in the highest evaluation group B for AlMg3 and in evaluation group C for AlSi12(Fe) by applying a magnetic flux density of 350 mT. The analysis of the CT images at constant laser power and welding velocity allows a direct comparison both between the two alloys and also as a function of the magnetic flux density with regard to the number and size of pores. An increase in the magnetic flux density leads to a significant decrease in the number and volume of pores, which can be seen more clearly in wrought alloy than in die casting. Very acceptable results can be achieved for both materials and different welding parameters. This successfully demonstrates the desired process robustness and functionality of the EM system for practical applications. For subsequent investigations of overlap joints, the lowest possible laser power and a high magnetic flux density are recommended.
AlSi10Mg is one of the most applied alloys for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology, due to its great possibilities for implementing new lightweight concepts such as in automotive industries. For the component design it is necessary to know about the mechanical properties and the mechanical behaviour. The many published strength properties of LPBF processed AlSi10Mg show significant differences up to approximately 225 MPa in ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and 195 MPa in yield strength (YS). To understand these varying properties, a ring trial was carried out manufacturing specimens on 6 LPBF machines with different parameters and build-up strategies. They were studied in the as-built (AB) condition and after heat treatment at 300 °C for 30 min, respectively. For examining the mechanical properties, tensile tests and hardness measurements were carried out. The microstructure was characterized by optical light microscopy (OM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). The identified differences in strength properties were discussed based on the 4 strengthening mechanism known for metallic materials and at the background of material defects. It was found that the size of the typical sub-cell structure of LPBF AlSi10Mg affected substantially the mechanical properties in the AB condition, in which with decreasing sub-cell size strength increased. If heat treatment was applied, the strength properties decreased and did not differ anymore. Since annealing led to coarsened sub-cells, whereas the grains itself did not change in size, the influence of sub-cell structure on strength was further confirmed. In addition, acicular precipitates in the AB condition were observed at specimens from one LPBF machine showing the lowest tensile elongation.
Das Presshärteverfahren hat sich zur ressourceneffizienten Verarbeitung von höchstfesten Stahlwerkstoffen im Karosserieleichtbau weltweit etabliert. Die fehlerfreie Bauteilproduktion wird jedoch durch Reibungs- und Verschleißerscheinungen aufgrund hoher thermo-mechanischer Werkzeugbelastungen und fehlender Schmierstoffsysteme limitiert. Als Lösungsansatz wird eine Modifikation der Werkzeugoberfläche mittels Laserimplantation angestrebt, um folglich deren Verschleißbeständigkeit nachhaltig zu erhöhen. Das Verfahren basiert auf einem lokalen Dispergieren keramischer Hartstoffpartikel in die Werkzeugoberfläche, infolgedessen hochfeste und erhabene Strukturen im Mikrometerbereich entstehen. Aufgrund der signifikanten Reduzierung der Kontaktfläche sowie der hohen Verschleißbeständigkeit der eingesetzten TiB2-Hartstoffe wird ein verbessertes tribologisches Einsatzverhalten unter presshärtetypischen Prozessbedingungen erwartet. Zur Verifizierung dieser Annahmen wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit modifizierte Pin-on-Disk Tests durchgeführt, um das Reib- und Verschleißverhalten der laserimplantierten Werkzeugoberflächen unter Presshärtebedingungen zu untersuchen. Zur weiteren Vertiefung des Prozess-verständnisses wurden die verschlissenen Platinen via Tastschnittmessungen und Querschliffaufnahmen analysiert. Durch den Ergebnisvergleich mit konventionellen Werkzeugoberflächen erfolgte eine abschließende Bewertung des tribologischen Einsatzverhaltens der laserimplantierten Strukturen.
In der Automobilindustrie stellt das Presshärteverfahren eine Schlüsseltechnologie zur ressourceneffizienten Herstellung sicherheitsrelevanter Karosserie-komponenten dar. Während der Umformoperation treten jedoch hohe Reibungs- und Verschleißerscheinungen an den interagierenden Werkzeug- und Werkstückwirkflächen auf, die sowohl die Bauteilqualität als auch die Maschinenstandzeit nachhaltig beeinträchtigen. Um die bestehenden Verfahrensgrenzen zu erweitern, wird daher eine Modifikation der Presshärtewerkzeuge mittels Laserimplantation angestrebt. Hierbei werden in die Werkzeugoberfläche keramische Hartstoffpartikel anhand eines gepulsten Laserstrahles eingebettet, infolgedessen kuppelförmige sowie höchstfeste Strukturen im Mikrometerbereich entstehen. Die Auswahl geeigneter Hartstoffmaterialien stellt jedoch ein entscheidendes und bisweilen limitierendes Kriterium dar, um defektfreie sowie verschleißresistente Oberflächenmodifikationen zu generieren. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit unterschiedliche titanbasierte Hartstoffpartikel auf presshärtespezifische Werkzeugstähle laserimplantiert und anschließend mittels modifizierten Pin-on-Disk-Tests hinsichtlich ihres tribologischen Einsatzverhaltens untersucht. Um die Wirksamkeit des Laserimplantationsverfahrens zu evaluieren, wurden zudem Verschleißuntersuchungen an unmodifizierten Werkzeugoberflächen durchgeführt und mit den erzielten Ergebnissen der lokal dispergierten Topographien verglichen.
Within the scope of this work, a laser implantation process has been used, in order to improve the tribological performance of hot stamping tools. This surface engineering Technology enables the generation of dome-shaped, elevated and highly wear resistant microfeatures on tool surfaces in consequence of a localized dispersing of hard ceramic particles via pulsed laser radiation.
As a result, the topography and material properties of the tool and thus the tribological interactions at the blank-die interface are locally influenced. However, a suitable selection of hard ceramic particles is imperative for generating defect-free surface features with a high share of homogenously disturbed particles. For this purpose, different niobium (NbB2 and NbC) as well as titanium-based (TiB2 and TiC) materials were embedded on hot working tool specimens and subsequently analyzed with regard to their resulting shape and mechanical properties. Afterwards, modified pin-on-disk tests were carried out by using conventional and laser-implanted tool surfaces, in order to evaluate the wear and friction behavior of both tooling systems.
In the automotive industry, the development of electrically powered vehicles has become a major forward-looking topic. For improving the range and thus the efficiency of electric cars, lightweight construction has gained even more importance. In this regard, hot stamping has been established as a suitable and resource efficient process to manufacture high-strength and lightweight body-in-white components. This method combines hot forming and quenching of boron-manganese steel 22MnB5 in a single process step. As a result, complex structures with thin sheet thicknesses and high ultimate tensile strength up to 1500 MPa are generated. However, the use of lubricants is not possible at elevated temperatures, which subsequently leads to high thermo-mechanical tool stresses. As a side effect, high friction and severe wear occur during the forming process, which affect the resulting part quality and maximum tool life. Therefore, the aim of this study is to improve the tribological performance of hot stamping tools by using a laser implantation process. This technique is based on manufacturing highly wear resistant, separated and elevated structures in micrometer range by embedding hard ceramic particles into the tool material via pulsed laser radiation. As a result, highly stressed areas on the tool surface can be modified locally, which in turn influence the tribological and thermal behavior during the forming process. In this regard, laser implanted and conventionally tool surfaces were investigated under hot stamping conditions. A modified pin-on-disk test was used to analyze the friction coefficient and occuring wear mechanisms. Furthermore, quenching tests as well as hardness measurements were carried out to gain in-depth knowledge about the cooling behavior of the modified tool surfaces and its impact to the resulting mechanical part properties.