Ultrasonic Impact Treatment (UIT) is an effective technique for surface refinement and residual stress reduction, which is widely used in welding. This study investigates UIT-assisted Wire and Arc Additive manufacturing (WAAM). The residual stress, grain morphology and mechanical properties of post-UIT and as-deposited samples are studied. The result demonstrates that the UIT has a significant influence on the decrease of the residual stress. Moreover, the residual stress of the post-UIT samples is much lower than that of the as-deposited samples. The samples fabricated by UIT-assisted WAAM have a novel, bamboo-like distribution of prior-β grains, an alternating distribution of short columnar grains and equiaxed grains. The grain size of this bamboo-like structure is much smaller than the coarsen columnar grains. In addition, the mechanical properties of the post-UIT and as-deposited samples are compared. The results indicate that the average tensile strength of the post-UIT samples is higher, while the average elongation of the post-UIT samples is lower.
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Yang, Y., Jin, X., Liu, C., Xiao, M., Lu, J., Fan, H., & Ma, S. (2018). Residual stress, mechanical properties, and grain morphology of Ti-6Al-4V alloy produced by ultrasonic impact treatment assisted wire and arc additive manufacturing. Metals, 8(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/met8110934
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