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Developing an Appropriate Heat Treatment Protocol for Additively Manufactured Alloy 718 for Oil and Gas Applications

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Additive manufacturing (AM) is a transformative technology that has opened areas of design space that were previously inaccessible by enabling the production of complex, three-dimensional parts and intricate geometries that were impractical to produce via traditional manufacturing methods. However, the extreme thermo-mechanical conditions in the AM build process (e.g., cooling rates ranging from 103 K/s
to 106 K/s and repeated heating/cooling cycles) generate deleterious microstructures with high residual stresses, and extreme compositional gradients.

Product Number: 51323-18793-SG
Author: M.R. Stoudt, M.E. Williams, J.S. Zuback, K.W. Moon, C.E. Campbell, C.R. Beauchamp, M. Yunovich
Publication Date: 2023
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The combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and excellent weldability makes Alloy 718 an attractive alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications, but the AM build process generates large compositional and microstructural heterogeneities. The formation of the δ-phase is of particular importance within the petroleum and natural gas (PNG) industries and a reduced Nb content is one method currently in use to control δ-phase growth in wrought IN718. However, it is not clear how effective that strategy will be in AM components as the growth kinetics of δ -phase are exceptionally sensitive to the build parameters used in the AM processing. Since the API 6ACRA treatment protocol used for wrought Alloy 718 does not produce the same properties in AM 718, a refined post-build heat treatment is required to relieve residual stresses and produce uniform microstructures and properties. An integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) framework was adopted for this work to develop
an effective heat treatment protocol for AM-processed IN718 that consistently achieves the requisite performance metrics while minimizing the δ-phase growth. for oil and gas industry applications. The results revealed that even though the wrought heat treatment does not completely remove all the AM solidification microstructure, it was sufficient to precipitate γ’ to achieve the 1035 MPa (150 ksi) strength level. Precipitation of γ’’, which governs the 850 MPa (120 ksi) strength level, is far more difficult to achieve without significant co-precipitation of the δ-phase.

The combination of strength, corrosion resistance, and excellent weldability makes Alloy 718 an attractive alloy for additive manufacturing (AM) applications, but the AM build process generates large compositional and microstructural heterogeneities. The formation of the δ-phase is of particular importance within the petroleum and natural gas (PNG) industries and a reduced Nb content is one method currently in use to control δ-phase growth in wrought IN718. However, it is not clear how effective that strategy will be in AM components as the growth kinetics of δ -phase are exceptionally sensitive to the build parameters used in the AM processing. Since the API 6ACRA treatment protocol used for wrought Alloy 718 does not produce the same properties in AM 718, a refined post-build heat treatment is required to relieve residual stresses and produce uniform microstructures and properties. An integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) framework was adopted for this work to develop
an effective heat treatment protocol for AM-processed IN718 that consistently achieves the requisite performance metrics while minimizing the δ-phase growth. for oil and gas industry applications. The results revealed that even though the wrought heat treatment does not completely remove all the AM solidification microstructure, it was sufficient to precipitate γ’ to achieve the 1035 MPa (150 ksi) strength level. Precipitation of γ’’, which governs the 850 MPa (120 ksi) strength level, is far more difficult to achieve without significant co-precipitation of the δ-phase.

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