Study of Phase Evolution Behavior of Ti6Al4V/Inconel 718 by Pulsed Laser Melting Deposition

In this study, a pulsed laser was used as the heat source for the additive work. The Ti6Al4V/Inconel 718 alloy wire was deposited on the substrate by melting using a pulsed laser. Using the above method, single-layer and double-layer samples were printed. The sample material printed in this way is highly utilized. Compared to the complicated pre-preparation work of metal powder pre-mixing, this printing method is simple to prepare and only requires changing the wire feeding speed. The study of this paper provides a theoretical guide for the subsequent fusion deposition of heterogeneous wire materials. The samples were analyzed after molding using SEM, EDS and XRD to characterize the microstructure of the samples. The samples can be divided into three zones depending on the microstructure, the bottom columnar crystal zone, the middle mixed phase zone, and the bottom equiaxed crystal zone. From the bottom to the top of the sample, the phase microstructure changes as γ + Laves → α + β + Ti2Ni + TiNi + Ni3Ti → α + β. The hardness data show that the highest value in the transition zone is 951.4 HV. The hardness of the top part is second only to the transition zone due to a large number of equiaxed crystals. The bottom region is dominated by columnar crystals and is the softest of the three regions with the lowest hardness value of 701.4 HV.