Effects of solid lubricants on wire and arc additive manufactured structures

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2014-04-01T00:00:00Z

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Yinka Adebayo, Jörn Mehnen, Xavier Tonnellier, Effects of solid lubricants on wire and arc additive manufactured structures, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, April 2014, Volume 228, Number 4, Pages 563-571.

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This paper reports a systematic study which examines the use of solid lubricants in the sequential deposition and machining of wire and arc additive manufactured parts and characterises the effects of solid lubricants on the microstrucure. This paper also describes the microstructure developed and the effect on micro hardness by manual cleaning of deposited layers with acetone. Mild steel wire consumable electrode G3Si1 with the diameter of 0.8mm was used. The use of graphite and molybdenum disulphide as solid lubricant in machining was also studied and a scanning electron microscope was used in detecting any form of lubricants contamination. A systematic study shows that a significant amount of solid lubricant contamination can be found in the deposited material. Furthermore, the results indicate that even cleaning of the wire and arc additive manufactured surfaces with acetone prior to the weld deposition can affect the microstructure of the deposited material.

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Solid lubricant, microstructure, mild steel, wire and arc additive manufacture

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