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Parts produced via additive manufacturing (AM) are being adopted broadly among many industries andused in an array of applications. AM parts are attractive to these industries for several reasons. Complexgeometries that cannot be manufactured using traditional, subtractive methods can be producedadditively.
Parts made via additive manufacturing (AM) are being adopted broadly among many industries and usedin an array of applications. AM parts are attractive to these industries for several reasons. Complexgeometries that otherwise cannot be manufactured using traditional methods can be printed. Also, theability to use AM to produce parts mitigates the need to maintain an inventory of replacement parts andavoids lengthy delivery times. Alloy 718 is widely used in demanding applications due to its high strengthat high temperatures and excellent creep and corrosion resistance. Parts and components of this alloycan be created using AM techniques. However, in hydrogen and hydrogen-producing environments, alloy718 is susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement (HE). The overall objective of this research program was tounderstand the underlying mechanisms governing the susceptibility of AM alloy 718 to HE byinvestigating the mechanical performance in high-pressure gaseous hydrogen and examining themicrostructure to compare the wrought and AM materials. The fatigue crack growth rate tests showedthat the wrought and all additively manufactured specimens had very similar mechanical response.Testing in gaseous hydrogen demonstrated that the AM and wrought materials had accelerated crackgrowth rates in the hydrogen gas environment; however, the effects of hydrogen were more pronouncedin some materials than others. Metallurgical characterizations revealed differences in precipitates andmetallurgy, and the post-test fracture surface examinations showed similar fracture morphology for allmaterials. No metallurgical feature or fracture morphology could be correlated with the more dramatic effects of hydrogen on the fatigue crack growth rates when comparing AM configurations and the wroughtmaterial.
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/sto 106 K/s and repeated heating/cooling cycles) generate deleterious microstructures with high residual stresses, and extreme compositional gradients.
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Alloy 718 is a common oilfield material for permanent and service equipment in need of high-mechanical ratings and resistance to corrosion especially environmentally-assisted cracking in sour gas wells. In past decade Alloy 718 production from traditional and newer mills has greatly increased in response to global demands; independently yet driven by similar market growth additive manufacturing (AM) has expanded beyond rapid prototyping to become an industrial production process namely in the aerospace. Today 718 bar stocks as per API6CRA are produced by over a dozen mills worldwide;similarly 718 powder products are increasingly offered by both traditional and newer mills with intents to servea multitude ofAM technologies. Due to the rise of new economic forces in the O&G there are today needs for evaluating (ultimately qualifying) newer 718 producing mills as well as 718 powders in combination with various AM technologies. Due to concerns overraw-material properties a study was conducted to analyze 718 materials from these various origins utilizing (1) mill cert big-data analyses (2) third-party recertified mechanical test data (3) a multitude of sour service test results outside the traditional NACE MR0175/ISO15156 operational service limits among others. The later raw-material test implemented in the early 2010s for screening and qualification purposes aims at quantitatively comparing 718 production heats of various origins and with additive manufacturing also generating interests since the early 2010sthe same tests have also beenextended to determine how layer-by-layer deposited materials compare to bar stock materials.
The main scope of this work is to explore different process configurations to understand the corrosion response of additive manufactured alloys and to suggest the parameters to be controlled for future qualification in sour environment.