Influence of the orientation of steel parts produced by DMLS on the fatigue behaviour

Abstract

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. The goal of this paper is to present studies of the influence of orientation of steel samples during additive manufacturing to their fatigue behaviour. The samples were produced from maraging steel EOS MS1 and stainless steel EOS PH1 using direct laser metal sintering technology. Three sets of samples were manufactured for each of the materials, with slopes of longitudinal axis of the samples being 0° (horizontal), 45° (slanted) and 90° (vertical) with respect to the horizontal building plane. All the samples were post-processed by heat treatment, shot-peening and machining, and tested according to the ISO 1143 standard. The curves for finite life domain were calculated using ISO 12107, and an estimation of the fatigue limit was made by Dixon-Mood method. The obtained results show that the building orientation has no significant influence on fatigue strength of maraging steel samples, while the stainless steel samples with slanted orientation of the axis have fatigue strength of up to 20% higher than the samples with horizontal or vertical orientation of the axis.