Texture evolution in selective laser melted maraging stainless steel CX with martensitic transformation

Pirgazi, Hadi and Sanjari, Mehdi and Tamimi, Saeed and Amirkhiz, Babak Shalchi and Kestens, Leo A. I. and Mohammadi, Mohsen (2021) Texture evolution in selective laser melted maraging stainless steel CX with martensitic transformation. Journal of Materials Science, 56 (1). pp. 844-853. ISSN 1573-4803 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05290-2)

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Abstract

Due to high local cooling rates and non-equilibrium directional solidification conditions, selective laser melting (SLM) processed metals exhibit microstructural and textural features significantly different from the conventionally processed ones. The evolution of crystallographic orientations in a maraging stainless steel (commercially known as stainless steel CX) sample fabricated by the SLM process was studied through experimental and modelling approaches Electron backscattering diffraction analysis showed that the dominant texture components in martensite and austenite phases are <111>|| building direction and <011>|| building direction, respectively. Texture simulation indicated that the formation of crystallographic orientations in the studied sample is the result of two consecutive phase transformations, from initially solidified delta ferrite phase with dominant cube fiber texture to austenite and austenite to martensite.

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