Metastable pitting corrosion behavior of laser powder bed fusion produced Ti-6Al-4V in Hank’s solution

Abstract

The metastable pitting corrosion behavior of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) produced Ti-6Al-4V is still unclear. Therefore, this work investigated the metastable pitting corrosion of LPBF-produced Ti-6Al-4V in Hank’s solution by electrochemical methods. The LPBF-produced sample (dominant by α′ phase in the microstructure) shows a higher frequency of pit nucleation than the annealed counterpart (composed by α + β dual phase). The passive films formed on the LPBF-produced sample exhibit a higher flux of oxygen vacancies, resulting in the absorption of more aggressive ions (e.g., Cl-) thereby producing more cation vacancies. The condensation of excessive cation vacancies contributes to the pit nucleation.

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Journal Article

Date of Publication

2022

Publication Title

Corrosion Science

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Elsevier

School

School of Engineering

RAS ID

44309

Funders

Jiangsu Province six talent peaks project (Grant No. XCL-117), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu (Grant No. BK20201456, No.BK20210891 and BK20191458), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (No. 2020A1515110394), Open Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metals and Featured Materials (Grant No. 2020GXYSOF01, 2021GXYSOF03).

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Cui, Y. W., Chen, L. Y., Qin, P., Li, R., Zang, Q., Peng, J., ... & Zhang, L. C. (2022). Metastable pitting corrosion behavior of laser powder bed fusion produced Ti-6Al-4V in Hank’s solution. Corrosion Science, 203, 110333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110333

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10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110333