Mechanical properties of the samples produced by volume powder cladding of stainless steel using a continuous fiber laser

Abstract

Samples for tensile tests were manufactured by using one of the additive technologies - direct laser material deposition. Investigations were carried out at the facility Huffman HC-205 equipped with a fiber laser with a power up to 3.5 kW. Various strategies of layering metallic powder of stainless steel 316L were considered to optimize the modes of constructing the samples. We measured the stress-strain state of the produced samples by the method of digital image correlation. It is found that the nominal tensile strength of the samples produced by the direct growing using laser powder of 316L steel is of high level - 767 MPa.