Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Chromium Bronze Using Recycled Powder

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of Cu-0.5Cr was carried out using recycled powder taken out from the LPBF machine after previous printing. Various volumetric defects characterized the powder wherein particle size distribution was the same as virgin powder. Using recycled powder resulted in extra spherical pore formation after the LPBF process. Despite that, a relative density of 99.2% was achieved by LPBF parameters optimization. Solidified microstructure with a small volume of defects consisted of an oversaturated dendritic Cu matrix and nano-sized Cr precipitations providing strengthening mechanism occurrence. The possibility of a satisfactory level of mechanical properties with σ0.2 = 136.8 MPa, UTS = 187.4 MPa, along with 15.5% of elongation achieving, was shown.

Effect of Deformation on the Corrosion Behavior of Chromium Bronze

The service life of material is much related with its corrosion resistance. Thus, the investigation on corrosion behavior is important for the better use of material. In this paper, the corrosion behavior of deformed chromium bronze experienced different processing was investigated in NaCl environment using electrochemical measurements and mass-loss tests. It has showed that the potentiodynamic polarization curves of cold rolled specimen coincide with that of cold worked specimen in two concentration of NaCl solution. The last cold working has little effect on the electrochemical behavior of cold rolled chromium bronze.The NaCl fog experiment showed that the corrosion resistance of cold rolled specimen is slightly better than that of cold worked specimen, and the mass-loss for two kinds of specimen are similar in the initial stage but the gap is increasing with corrosion time. The corrosion scales on the surface of specimen, accumulated in the form of island produced in the NaCl fog experiment , has little hindered effect on corrosion behavior.

Corrosion Behavior of Ultra-Fine Grain Chromium Bronze Prepared by Equal-Channel Angular Pressing in HCl Solution

The corrosion resistance of Ultra-fine grain (UFG) chromium bronze, prepared by Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) processing, was investigated in HCl solution at room temperature and atmospheric pressure by electrochemistry technique and immersion experiment. The results shows that the corrosion potential of chromium bronze is decreased with ECAP processing. But the corrosion resistance is deteriorated slightly. According to the immersion tests, the weight-loss of UFG chromium bronze, compared with its counterpart, is higher in the initial stage and lower in the later stage, and the gap is in the range of 5%-15%. The corrosion mechanism on the UFG chromium bronze is deduced from the experiment data and corrosion morphology.