Materials Science and Engineering

Wire arc additive manufacturing of Al-Si-Mg aluminum alloy through wire-powder synchronous deposition

  • 孟云飞,余千禧,伍 旭,高 明,陈 辉
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  • 1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;
    3. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Online published: 2025-11-04

Abstract

Owing to the lack of matching commercial welding wires, the development of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) for most aluminum alloys is hindered. A wire-powder synchronous arc additive manufacturing (WPAAM) was proposed to prepare the target Al-Si-Mg aluminum alloy. Based on the synchronous deposition of AlSi12 wire and pure Mg powder, the deposition width of the WPAAMed thin-wall was increased by 61% compared with that of WAAMed thin-wall using AlSi12 wire, and the machining allowance was reduced by 81%. The added Mg powder benefited to form refined equiaxed grains, and reduced the average grain size of the WPAAMed thin-wall to 47.1 μm, showing a decrease of 23.8% relatively to that of the WAAMed thin-wall. Besides, Mg reacted with Si to form Mg2Si strengthening phases. The mechanical properties tests showed that the ultimate tensile strength and elongation of the WPAAMed thin-wall increased up to 174.5 MPa and 4.1%, reaching 92% and 60% those of the WAAMed thin-wall, respectively.

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孟云飞,余千禧,伍 旭,高 明,陈 辉 . Wire arc additive manufacturing of Al-Si-Mg aluminum alloy through wire-powder synchronous deposition[J]. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2025 , 35(3) : 701 -714 . DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(24)66709-9

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