Effect of robotic weaving motion on mechanical and microstructural characteristics of wire arc additively manufactured NiTi shape memory alloy

Karuna Kumar Gonela; Chakkravarthy Vijayavarman; Manojkumar Palanivel; Lakshmanan Mariappan; Lakshmi Narayan Ramasubramanian; Arasappan Rajesh Kannan

doi:10.1515/ijmr-2022-0272

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Effect of robotic weaving motion on mechanical and microstructural characteristics of wire arc additively manufactured NiTi shape memory alloy

Karuna Kumar Gonela , Chakkravarthy Vijayavarman , Manojkumar Palanivel , Lakshmanan Mariappan , Lakshmi Narayan Ramasubramanian und Arasappan Rajesh Kannan

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Abstract

The effect of robotic weaving motion on the crystallographic orientation, texture and mechanical properties of thin-walled nickel titanium shape memory alloy fabricated via wire arc additive manufacturing is studied. Crystallographic orientation analysis reveals that the weaving motion alters the epitaxial growth of grains, which reduces the fraction of (001) oriented grains but increased the fraction of (110) and (111) oriented grains. Moreover, the weaving motion increases the fraction of equiaxed grains and homogeneously distributes Ni₄Ti₃ phases. These changes improve the hardness and strength of the build and also introduce isotropy in mechanical properties. Results of the study reveal that arc weaving strategy has a great potential in achieving near isotropic tensile characteristics and is beneficial in terms of tailoring texture in building nickel titanium thin-walled smart material structures.

Keywords: NiTi alloy; Wire arc additive manufacturing; Electron backscattered diffraction; Texture; Grain boundary

Corresponding author: Chakkravarthy Vijayavarman, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India, E-mail: chakkravarthyv5@gmail.com

Research ethics: Not applicable.
Author contributions: All the authors have equally contributed to this article. The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: The authors state no conflicts of interest.
Research funding: The author (R.L Narayanan) would also like to thank and acknowledge the financial support received from the Start-up research grantscience and Engineering research board, DST, New Delhi ((No.SRG/2020/000095)) to carry out this research.
Data availability: The research data will be available with the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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Received: 2022-06-08

Accepted: 2022-09-26

Published Online: 2023-10-20

Published in Print: 2023-10-27

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NiTi alloy; Wire arc additive manufacturing; Electron backscattered diffraction; Texture; Grain boundary